Hello, I´m having problems with LILO and I can´t find any documentation that seems related...
Symtoms: LILO prints "L", followed by the number "07" which seems to repeat endlessly. I´ve bought a Debian 3.0 CD set and have installed LILO (and Linux) using the install CD. I can now boot from a boot-floppy (had *that* much wits :-) or from the install-CD. My HW: Attached to the IDE bus: - The master HDD is a Western Digital WD400, a 40.0 GB disk that holds a VFAT partition (hda1 in linux), which is "bootable", and an NTFS partition (hda2 in linux). The VFAT partition is more or less empty and the other one holds a Win XP installation and loads of apps and data :-) - The slave HDD is an IBM Deskstar IC35L040AVVA07-0, a 41.1 GB disk that I have made two linux partitions on: a 2M swap (hdb2) and the rest (hdb1) is non-swap. The non-swap is marked "bootable". - A Sony CRX160E CD burner (cable select I think) - An Iomega 250MB Zip drive (cable select I think) The BIOS is a standard Dell BIOS, rev. A13, and the computer itself is a Dell Precision 420MT. I found some program that I could install on some boot floppy that would probe some HD geometry, it responded: Drive 0x80 Cyl:Head:Sec = 1023:255:63 whichever drive that was? The system also have 2 1GHz 686 processors, a Promise Ultra 100 TX2 controller with a NEC DV-800A DVD player attached, 768M RAM, Intel 82801AA USB, who knows what matters? I half-remember having read sometime that the letters in LILO printed at start-up show up after certain stages have been completed, but can´t seem to find it again. My Debian books say nothing on this topic and the other documentation I´ve found seems to concern other things (or am I stupid?). Anyone know what docs I should read to solve this problem? Pleez let me know if the information I´ve given so far is insufficient... -- Christer "The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris." (from the man page for perl) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
