>Hello, everyone!
>
>Can someone help me solve my problem?
>
>Here it is:
> I have recently installed Slackware 4.0 on
>Pentium-III 128MB RAM machine (HDD space is not an
>issue), and it was running until I tried to reboot it.
> During installation fdisk displayed a message that
>because my machine has 2213 blocks instead of 1024, it
>might cause problems when invoking LILO at boot. When
>I went to Slackware documentation, it said that the
>problem would be in that LILO can access only first
>1024 blocks. And my "/" parttition fits completely in
>this limit - so it shouldn't be a problem.
> The error message at boot is the following:
>-Verifying DMI pool data.................
>-Not found any [active partition] at HDD
>-Not found any [active partition] at HDD
>-DISK BOOT FAILURE...
>
> The only way I could boot up was using floppy
>bootdisk. Is this the only way to boot the Slackware
>system?
>
>I checked the partitions - they are present (and
>configured), and the SWAP is configured. So what
>causes the problem?
>
>Thanks in advance.
Try appending "linear" to your boot partition definition section in lilo. I
had a similar problem with OpenCaldera 2.2, and it fixed it when nothing
else would...
-Paul-André Beaulieu
Honours Computer Science
Trent University
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