Hi there!
Thanks for reading this!
Need help !!!
I just got myself GNU/Linux 1.2 from sunsite.unc.edu and I was trying to
install it on my computer.
I have Pentium Pro 200Mhz, 2.12GB, 452Kb hard drives and 40 Mb of RAM. I am
currently using System Commander to separate operating systems. I had
win95, DOS 6.22 as my boot options before installing Linux. Then I
installed Linux on drive D (452Mb), and everything was fine. After
rebooting I got new boot option : "Linux" (cool), but when I tried to boot
to Linex System Commander gave me an error message:
"The selected operating system appears to have a defective boot record. The
normal boot signature is missing". There was an option to "Boot as-is",
when I clicked on it my PC just stopped doing any thing. Then I rebooted
from bootable floppy which I created during Linux installation, and
everything went fine. Linux booted from floppy and I was prompted to create
an boot password, then create regular account, user name and password for
it, and dselect. So I assumed that booting from floppy is doing fine and I
installed Linux properly. Then I rebooted again from Rescue disk and went
right to option "Make Linux bootable from hard disk" and got message "LILO
wasn't able to install. You'll still be able to boot your system if you
create a boot floppy but it won't be able to boot without a floppy. The
most common reason for LILO to fail is an over-large root ("/") partition.
LILO is unable read any block of the kernel from a disk cillinder numbered
higher than 1023. This is often a problem with disk larger than a Gigabyte
or so. One way to solve the problem is to make a separate "/" and "/usr"
disk partition, so that the entire "/" partition will be below the 1023
cillinder". I checked my hard disks and 2.12GB has 1023 cillinders and
452KB has 1018 cillinders. But I decided to repartitioned my disk anyway.
So I created 50KB partition on drive D as root and I marked it "Bootable",
350KB partition as /usr, 52KB partition as swap and reinstalled the Linux
from very beginning, but the same problem occur. I still be able to boot it
from boot floppy but not from the HD.
Please, help me to resolve this problem.
I am very new to Linux system and any help will be greatly appreciated (
even how to change directories, go to floppy, view files, set up hardware
and software and so on).
Thank you very much for your time, and sorry for any grammar mistakes in
this letter (I'm Russian and still Learn English).
Valeri
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