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On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:47:11AM +0800, Carley, Jason (Hong Kong) wrote:
Well I haven't yet gotten around to fixing my network
Hello, problems. I am now
trying to get my system to boot from either a disk or LILO on the hard drive.
It is an Abit KT-7 and the Drive is a slave (for historical reasons) behind a CDROM drive on the 1st IDE controller (not the RAID controllers which have a seperate windows installation on them).
Ah Yes....I used to have an Abit KT-7 drive. In fact (just to make you jealous), it runs Linux fine.....no problems...
I get the famous LI response from the bootloader. Now after looking this up in the docs and being told that it relates to disk geometry I am stumped.
Yes, thats quite right. It means that /boot is most likely not in the first 1024 cylindars of your drive.
I am booting to a /boot all within the 1024 limit. The drive is properly
detected and boots under other OSs. I get exactly the
same problem whether I
am using LILO on a boot disk or the hard drive. I even
Ah...ummm, this is strange tried a reinstall
using default partitioning in case something I did stuffed up the booting ability from the hard drive.
It boots fine from the Disk 1 CDROM.
One thing that I would do, is to verify that you partitions
are "legal" and that each partition is not trying to
compete for space on the other partition.
If you have DOS/Windows installed on your machine, you can
use a program called "part" (ranish partition manager),
which can verify, and diagnose partition problems.
Regards,
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Thomas Adam
"The Linux Weekend Mechanic" --