Situation: 1,5 GB hard drive on Primary Ide with Win ME. 10 GB hard drive on Secundary Ide as Master with Suse 6.2. When installing I configured LILO for a dual booting (Linux and Win ME). But when it's booting time....you guessed ot.. LILO won't work. It stops at LIL-, which according to the documentation means "Data in the map file is unvalid. This can be due to a faulty disk geometry or to moving /boot/boot.b wihout reinstalling LILO". This doesn't help me much so what can I do? What can be the actual problem to this and how can I fix it? I don't know if it has to do with a message that I got when Suse was finished with the installation which said " Starting name Service Cache Daemon Failed". Is it?

Did you make a boot floppy? you could boot into Linux and fix lilo. or to wipe the MBR pop in a 9X bootdisk and type fdisk/mbr to wipe you master boot record then you can boot into windows at least

Ya, and I think ME has a dual boot feature so you can tell it to dual boot into Linux using the Lilo made for Microsoft... There is documentation on how to do it for 2000 and NT so it should be the same,,, i think

Hi, I have a dual boot machine with WinME and RH 7.1, and everything works for me. Is your LILO on MBR or on a boot partition? If it's on a boot partition, is the partition inside the first 1024 cylinders? If not, then depending on your kernel/lilo version you could have problems. If your kernel/lilo are recent, you can try adding the LBA tag to lilo with bootdisk. Then lilo can find Linux outside of the 1024 cylinder limit. If it's MBR, then you can try as suggested to use an fdisk /mbr and use your bootdisk to load linux. If you installed Linux, and then windows, windows probably overwrote the MBR causing LILO problems. Hope that helps..

My question is did you try to compile your own kernel?? the problem has to do with how linux is sitting on your mbr......from what i have been told boot up with floppy....log into system after mounting proper partitions then run make zlilo fyi Me will not boot with Linux like nt/2000 will. NT/2000 each come with there own boot loaders "boot.ini" file in the root directory. From everything that i know you can't boot linux once up in ME...although i have been wrong before good day

f--- LILO. Use XOSL. It really kicks ass. www.xosl.org

Well Lilo is installed in the MBR. But that's no problem since I know I can get into Linux anything with the boot disk but I want to be able to boot from LILO on the hard drive. And I've heard just a hundred different solutions and I don't know which one is the one!! Can anybody help?