On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> Sorry, I did a lousy job of explaining the problem. I have a 5MB /boot
> partition at the begining of the disk. Linux boots fine off a floppy.
>
> The BIOS doesn't even see the hard drive. I get something like "OS not
> found" when it boots. When I try enter *something* for the primary disk
> parameters, I get a drive detection failure or something like that, and if
> I press F1 to continue I get the "OS not found" again.
>
> If I can just get it to run LILO from the MBR of the hard drive, I can
> take care of any other problems (if they arise).
>
> I did go looking for a BIOS upgrade. So little information is displayed on
> bootup (just that it's version 4.04) that I can't find any upgrade for
> it. I started at phoenix.com and ended up on firmware.com who is glad to
> sell me a new bios. It's a free ($50 value) computer, so I don't plan on
> it.
>
> I'll continue to boot off the floppy if I have to, I would just prefer to
> boot off the hard drive long term.
>
> thanks
> charles
Charles -
Try running 'lilo' with a captial 'L'. (lilo -L)...
See if that fixes your problem.
It did for me.
>
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Mike Burger wrote:
>
> > 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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