On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 12:24:07PM +0000, Jeremy Gunter wrote: > Hello, > I have just installed slink onto a new 4GB hard disk (the 2GB that was > in > it failed last week). Lilo does not seem to write the boot sector to the > disk, however. When I try to boot from the disk it says that there is no > operation system. When I run Lilo it appears to function correctly, and I > have confirmed that the partition is set to active... > > To get the drive geometry to come up correctly under cfdisk during the > install I had to give it the exact CHS geometry (hda=8912,15,63). If I now > boot the system with the floppy and do not pass it this geometry, cfdisk > claims it to be a 200GB hard disk (I wish!) and Lilo fails saying that > there is an invalid partition table. > > I suspect that Lilo is writing the boot record somewhere different from > where the bios expects to find it -- although I admit I am somewhat > guessing at this point. Thanks for any help you can give me!
I've had numerous problems of this typd using cfdisk. I've started using fdisk instead during installations (type alt-F2 and hit return to get a shell prompt) and had much better results. If your BIOS supports it, you should probably use LBA to get under 1024 cylinders. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
