"Ken" == Ken M Mevand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i created a /boot partition as the first partition of the disk > (about 40M), and it still doesn't work. is LILO screwed? whenever i > boot, the screen is filled with "01". i can only boot using a > floppy. anyone know how to fix this?
>> ken I had the same symptom. My problem was that the /boot partition was not on the master disk (hda), it was on hdb. I believe it was my BIOS that couldn't handle booting from the second disk, LILO itself wasn't the problem. My solution was to put the /boot partition on hda and boot to it. Luckily I had some ext2 partitions on hda from a previous RedHat install, so I moved the contents of /boot to hda5. Everything worked nicely after that. If you really don't want to mess with shrinking your Windows partition, I was told (by David Wright) that it could still be done, using some symlink trickery. For a better explanation of how to fix the problem, look in the archives for David Wright's message to this list on 5 October 2000. hth, =wl -- Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer "They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!"
