Re: [ilugd]: old p120

2003-01-02 Thread Raj Shekhar
> i suspect that the motherboard has the standard > 1024sector problem that i read sometime ago... > > but what i intend to ask is that, > shouldnt a partition (about the size ) of 600Mb on > a 4Gb harddisk with no other partition on it, work ? > i did try this but failed at exactly the sa

Re: [ilugd]: old p120

2003-01-02 Thread vivek
On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 19:52, Robins Tharakan wrote: > hi, > > i suspect that the motherboard has the standard 1024sector problem that i read >sometime ago... > > but what i intend to ask is that, > shouldnt a partition (about the size ) of 600Mb on a 4Gb harddisk with no other >partition on it,

Re: [ilugd]: old p120

2002-12-30 Thread Robins Tharakan
please read "i did try lilo too..." as "i did try loadlin too..."   sorry   robins - Original Message - From: Robins Tharakan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 7:52 PM Subject: [ilugd]: old p120 hi,   i have this

[ilugd]: old p120

2002-12-30 Thread Robins Tharakan
hi,   i have this old p-120 on which i wish to install *any* version of linux... a recent motherboard replacement has somehow made any linux booting impossible...(i did try lilo too...!) the system just gets hung after an "init" message during bootup, or at the max it reaches the hard-disk de