You could put "lba32" in /etc/lilo.conf, that worked for me running a drive on /dev/hde . . . this is my first hard drive, but un an ATA66 controller.
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Ken M. Mevand wrote: > 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 > > > -- **------------** Nick Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
