yes, Holly gave a lot of info. before installing lilo checked bios setings for HD - for master there is LBA option 'auto' or 'disable' - no entry for 'enable'
tried lilo, now back with grub. will do some BIOS research, if no luck, then that old 30GB maxtor deserves to be /tmp partition or something like. thanx for help anyway Martins On Sunday 26 June 2005 17:44, Richard Fish wrote: > Martins Steinbergs wrote: > >Disk /dev/hda: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes > >16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 59582 cylinders > >Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > >/dev/hda1 * 1 47080 23728288+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > >Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. > >/dev/hda2 47096 59575 6289447+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > >Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. > >/dev/hda5 47096 59575 6289416 7 HPFS/NTFS > > Holly covered all of the major points...I just want to add that these > messages may or may not be a problem. They indicate that the windows > disk was originally partitioned in 'LBA' mode, which always pretends to > have 255 heads. If your BIOS is disabling LBA mode on the primary > master disk, then it is possible that the windows boot loader is not > able to find some block-mapped files that it needs (ntldr being the > critical one). But that error would come after the point where you are > currently stuck, so I don't think this is the problem currently. > However, you may want to double check the BIOS settings for the PM disk > and make sure that LBA is enabled. > > -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
