YES!! managed to solve the problem by moving /boot to hda which is a windows partition and creating a symlink.
thanks! now... if my hda crash, so goes my hdd?? ----- Original Message ----- From: Willy Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 2:17 PM Subject: Re: LILO > "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!" > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
