Two problems to mention: Firstly:- 2.2.16 boot-floppies and vanilla rescue/root image from latest potato disk image (reported as Linux 2.2.17 from Kernel-image- 2.2.17-2.2.17pre6-1) cannot make a boot floppy. I've tracked the problem down to utilities/dbootstrap/bootconfig.c where the superformat command is issued. For some reason this fails following a brief access to the disk drive. Issuing the command from the console (Alt-F2) works fine. Results are the same whether or not the floppy is connected internally or via parallel port. Secondly:- I was forced into this because lilo doesnt seem to be able to make a boot record for an extended partition (cylinder>1023) in my environment even though I thought lba32 is supported on the official release. Neither Mandrake 7.1 or RedHat 7.0 suffer from this, both of which install OK albeit with manual tweaks to lilo.conf afterwards. Not sure whether these are known bugs (although cant find much on the mailing or bug lists) or HP specific problems. Currently I dont have a workaround to get a system up and running. I'm reluctant to put lilo on the MBR and I unfortunately have to have Win2000 occupying the rest of my hard disk for my employers benefit! (Originally posted in debian-boot) -- Dave Williams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
