I've had experience with EZ-Boot before helping my friend upgrade his hard
drive. And this was basically the one bug I couldn't fix. For some
reason, the HD would never get detected *correctly* the first time and
required a reboot. He was running Windows, so I believe at least Andrew's
problem is the EZ-Boot. So I'm guessing that you have a mobo that's too
old to support the large HD? Generally, my past experience have been that
if LILO starts displaying numbers, it's usally the case that the HD wasn't
detected correctly. If the problem was with LILO itself, the usualy
symptom would be it getting stuck at "LI"
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Andrew Vick wrote:
> I've been getting the same error message from LILO: "L 01 01 01..."
>
> I've been getting around it by rebooting. When I turn on my computer, the
> first thing I do is Ctrl-Alt-Del. When the computer reboots, LILO runs
> without problem. To me the error only happens the first time I boot up my
> computer after it has been turned off.
>
> I have not figured out any solution beyound the three-fingered salute, I have
> a suspicion that it is caused by my harddrive. Do you, like I, have a large
> WDCaviar drive with EZ-Boot or their more modern DataLifeguard? I have no
> direct evidence that the drive (it is the second drive on my computer) is the
> problem, but (I suspect) it was causing boot trouble even before I installed
> Mandrake (I had/have Win98) causing the computer to freeze when Windows was
> booting.
>
> My little anecdote.
>
> -Andrew Vick
>
> >===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====
> >Dev,
> >I had a similar problem with LILO on many distributions of Linux. I will
> >tell you how I overcame the problem and hopefully you will be able to
> >apply it to your system.
> >When I did my install of Mandake 7.0-2 I was fortunate enough for it to
> >tell me it LILO wouldn't like being installed installed on my HD with my
> >Linux partition so far back, so what you have is a few options open to you.
> >If you do what I did, you can install Linux on your first partiton (but
> >make sure you install Wind'ohs first) which installs LILO in the MBR and
> >then Linux is the next OS in the process. It seems to like this and will
> >boot fine. Your other option is to allocate about 10MB or so of space at
> >the beginning of your HD and use this for your boot software. I have
> >heard reports that this will work, though you are better off installing
> >Linux to your first partition. Basically, if Linux isn't located within
> >the first 1024 cylinders of your HD LILO will have problems booting.
> >WInd'ohs will still start up OK if it is not installed on the first
> >partition because it doesn't recognise etx2 FS's and so it will believe it
> >is still the first OS.
> >The exact steps I took were:
> >1. PArtition my primary HD into three (two large one small)
> >2. Install Wind'ohs on the third one (if you don't format the
> >first or second it will pcik up the second as C:)
> >3. Install Linux on the first partition and make sure you format it
> >(use the second smaller partition for swap space)
> >4. When LILO installs it will pick up both Linux and Wind'ohs and will
> >boot between both, depending on the choice you make at boot time.
> >
> >Let me know how you go. Tis worked for me and I can't see why it wouldn't
> >work for you. I had about 7 unsuccessful attempts until I tried this,
> >which worked like a charm and has run sweet ever since.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Wayne
> >********************************
> >********************************
> >Wayne Petherick
> >Criminology Department
> >Bond University
> >********************************
> >********************************
>
