On 16 Aug 2001 09:33:18 -0400, Raj Wurttemberg wrote: > Hello, > > I have been trying to get Debian 2.2 r3 to install all night and have not > had any luck. I made it all the way to the point where Debian is supposed to > make itself bootable off of the hard drive. Every time it fails saying "lilo > wasn't able to install...". It even failed when trying to make the boot > floppy. I tried several blank formatted and unformatted floppies too.
Hmmm. I would get the system installed and at the point it wants to try and make the hardisk bootable just boot off the rescue disk and then use the rescue options to set your root partition to the appropriate scsi drive. That should allow you to complete the installation and possibly get a different lilo or syslinux installed to make the boot partition bootable. I'd also make sure that lilo is trying to use linear (only since lba32 has never worked on my old hardware). --mike
