Sounds like 540M limit problem, try to partition it, the first boot
partition in < 540M, and put the kernel in here. the LILO can boot for
kernel in < 540M.
Am I right, anyone point it out more clearly?
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Dennis Davis wrote:
> I have a older 486 that I added a 3gig hard drive from my pentium. At
> the time the hard drive had linux on it(slack 4.0) and worked fine in
> the pentium system. When I put it in the 486, I removed the old 100 meg
> drive and set the hd's parameters in the setup program for the bios. The
> machine wouldn't boot on the hd, but would boot from floppy and mounted
> the new hd as root partician. The drive was /dev/hdb in the pentium
> machine and is /dev/hda in the 486. But very few things would work, and
> lilo wouldn't work, just gave a "li" when starting up and froze. So I
> tried to reformat and reinstall linux, the hard drive and the cd are
> recognised(the cd is also freshly installed), but when I get to the
> format portion of the linux setup program it starts diplaying "couldn't
> get a free page" and eventially locks up. It has 6 megs ram, unable to
> install more.
> Any ideas on this?
>
> Dennis
