dizzy wrote:
Hi All I aqquired a compaq presairo and wanted to use a hd disk that I had already been using. The hd had lilo on the mbr and worked flawlessly. I removed and installed the hd into the compaq which come to find has a setup/diagnostic prog in the mbr?? anyway the hd booted with just LI so I figgured Id place it back in the machine it came from and reinstall lilo. here's the problem.. lilo wont go on the mbr correctly and my /vmlinuz is above the 1024 cylinders so I need it on the mbr I tried using a boot disk and reinstall lilo boot to the drive in single user, running yast and reinstalling onto the mbr (which worked before) boot to dos and fdisk /mbr after taht redoing the first 2 items any suggestions... Id sure appreciate it Id dont really want to reinstall. I just want my system back thanks rob
I'm not sure where the problem is. You took a working hd, put it in the Compaq, where it wouldn't work. Then you returned it to the original machine and it won't work anymore? And now you want your original machine to work as before, but lilo won't reinstall? Lilo should be restorable in your original setup. Unless the compaq diagnostic bios program messed it up. If you can make a tiny primary partition as the first on the disk, and mount /boot there in fstab, lilo should work even if vmlinuz is above the 1024 limit. Lilo on the mbr, looks for /boot, then boot tells it where vmlinuz is. To make the partition , you probably would need partition magic, or be able to copy everything off to another disk, fdisk, and copy back. I hope this didn't confuse you even more. W - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e