Hi good people.. I have just bought a new 41 gig IBM hard drive for my old heap of a home server. (IBM 300PL. 233mmx HX chipset, 160MB ram, TNT2 Video.)
Anyway, I installed the drive, the 300PL saw it as an 8.4 gig drive.. (and thats after I flashed the latest IBM bios.) Still, I thougt if it works as an 8.4 that will do.. But the Mandrake 8.2 install saw the full 41 gig and partitioned and installed accordingly. All went well, including setting up X and everything else.. so I had lilo written to the MBR and went to restart my new install. No good, it couldn't find the boot record.. kept askin for a bootable media. So I tried writing lilo to /dev/hda5 which is my /root partition, but that resulted in the same thing.. (is it possible that I can only load lilo to the /root partition if there is no seperate /boot partition?) After makin everything XFS and then discovering there was no way to make a boot disk, I reloaded with everytyhing as Reiserfs except /boot and /root which were ext3.. so now the only way to get my system up and running is via a boot disk, although it works perfectly from that point on, including X and all... How can I got my system to boot from the hard disk??? does anyone know what I could try? I found some utils on the IBM hard drive site for this, but they all turned out to be winblows stuff, even though you could make their disks from linux, they still wanted to format everything in fat or fat32 and load dos TSR's.. which is not alot of good in a linux system. Any help would be wonderful.. many thanks kindest regards Frank Hauptle. PS.. I apologise for not posting much lately, but I still have not got a domain that mandrake accepts for posting mail, and yahoo via the web is a pain in the tookus.. so I only post now when I'm desperate, at least until I find a good easy method.. thanks again..... :-) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
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