On Fri Feb 23 23:48:07 2001 Lute Mullenix wrote...
>
>On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:34:24PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
>>
>> This seems to have been done by the installer. I booted from the
>> floppy, looked
>> at /etc/lilo.conf (which had all the correct settings for my config as
>> dar as I
>> can tell), and ran lilo just on general principles.
>>
>> I also watched the boot messages, and went back and set the correct disk
>> parameters in the BIOS by hand (39813/16/63).
>>
>> If I try to boot from the hard disk, I get the following:
>>
>> L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 ............ and it continues till i hit the
>> power
>> switch.
>>
>> More suggestions?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 843-745-3154
>> Charleston SC.
>>
>Hi,
>
>I know you aren't going to want to hear this, and I'm sure there must be a
>better way. But...
>
>I recently installed Debian 2.2r0 on a 486 I have around here and the exact
>same thing happened to me. I couldn't get any answers that worked, so what I
>ended up doing is going back, and with cfdisk deleted everything from the
>disk, re-partitioned, then re-installed. Since then it's worked fine.
>Originally I installed using partitions I had set up from a SuSE install.
>
>As I said, I'm sure there's a better way, but that's what worked for me.
>
Thanks, I thought that might be it, as I had used this drive as a data
disk on
a FreeBSD machine previously.
However, I did cfdisk, and deleted everything, and reinstalled, same
exact
problem :-(
Is there a lower level thing, than cfdisk that will overwrite anything
that
moght be in the MBR?
--
Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 843-745-3154
Charleston SC.
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a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit
company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
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