On Fri Feb 23 18:57:36 2001 ktb wrote...
>
>On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 05:42:13PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
>> I am trying to install "stable" On an HP Vectra P200, with a 20G IDE disk.
>>
>> All of the install goes well, untill I reboot. Then, I get a continuois
>> stream of
>> "40 ";s streaming across teh screen while the hard disk ling _and_ the
>> floppy light
>> flash!
>>
>> I can boot from the boot floppy OK.
>>
>> I set up a 20M /boot parttion as the first partition on the only hard disk.
>>
>> How can I fix this?
>>
>> BTW, the BIOS thinks this is onl an 8G disk, which may be part of the
>> problem?
>>
>
>You might be able to upgrade your bios in order to see all 20G's.
>
>Have you tried installing lilo yet? You need to set up /etc/lilo.conf
>and then run -
># /sbin/lilo
This seems to have been done by the installer. I booted from the
floppy, looked
at /etc/lilo.conf (which had all teh correct setings for my confg as
dar as I
can tell), and ran lilo just on general principles.
I alos watched the boot messages, and went back and set the corrrect
disk
paramters in the BIOS by hand (39813/16/63).
If I try to boot from the hard didk, I get the following:
L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 ............ and it continures till i hit the power
swithc.
More sugestions?
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