Hi ! You can boot up with rescue disk as follows: rescue root=/dev/hda5 Why won't lilo put the boot to MBR ? Send your lilo.conf please, and I'll try to help.
Bye. Yannick Asselin wrote: > Hi guys. > > I've been trying to get debian (woody) installed on my new I8000 and I can't > get past the lilo installation. I'm using the compact diskette set and doing a > network (http) installation. > > Here's how I partitionned my drive (fdisk printout) > > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3890 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System > /dev/hda1 * 28 659 5076540 b Win95 FAT32 > /dev/hda2 26 27 16065 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 660 1322 5325547+ 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 660 902 1951866 83 Linux > /dev/hda6 903 1291 3124611 83 Linux > /dev/hda7 1292 1322 248976 82 Linux swap > > There's a empty part (for hibernation) at the beginning and the end of it > hasn't been formatted yet (it's a 32GB IBM drive). hda2 would be /boot, hda5 > would be /, and hda6 would be /usr. > > Now it won't work to put the boot part in either hda2 or MBR. I tried with and > without the hda2 enabled for boot. It won't even create a boot disk. I also > tried booting with the rescue disk and giving it "rescue boot=/dev/hda5" but > nothing seems to work. Am I doomed to use WinME?? > > Thanks! > Yannick > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
