Does it not boot at all, or does it give you a partial LILO prompt?
My next question is going to be "How did you partition the drive?"
FWIW, I create a 50MB /boot partition, at the very beginning of the
drive...that way, the boot partition is well inside the 1024 cylinder
mark, and it ends inside it, too.
If you can manually set the drive parameters, and set a small enough /boot
partition, you should be able to get this going.
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Charles Galpin wrote:
> I have an old ZEOS Pantera (P90) with a Phoenix 4.04 bios that I cannot
> get to recognize my IDE hard drive (7752 cyl, 16 heads, 63 spt). Of course
> Linux installs and runs just fine on it.
>
> But, the BIOS fails to autodetect it, and therefore won't boot off the HD.
> Using the correct parameters causes the bios to hang. It won't let me
> enter more than 16 heads so I can't reduce the number of cylinders. I even
> tried incorrect settings :)
>
> Any advise? All I need is to get it to boot off the HD.
>
> tia
> charles
> p.s. Glad to see monday night football appears to have an impact on the
> list traffic. Wait a minute - what the hell am I doing in front of the
> 'puters..
>
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