Hi,
The problem lies in the Harddisk geometry the BIOS passes to the LILO
loader. Unfortunatly, when booting from a normal install, you sometime get
your Harddisks parameteres read in LBA, CHS or Large form, this due to the
new read of the Partition tables when you changed the partition
If you are reinstalling and dont care about whats on the disk
then you can wipe the master boot record using
a boot floppy and then typing
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
Just leave that running for a couple of seconds and disk
should now appear as an unpartitioned unformated disk
to the installation
though I have figured out my
own
workaround, just to understand. Any advice; thanks.
Best
Regards,
Chris Haidinyak
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I just upgraded to a MSI K7T266 Pro with 1.3 GHZ Athlon and 512MB DDR RAM.
LILO won't boot. I get LI and it hangs. An FAQ suggested that /sbin/lilo
be executed from a boot disk to correct the problem. I did that and it
still won't boot. So, I decided
Even though I hated to do it, I wiped the disk and did a fresh
install. Still didn't fix the problem. Joe's nfo helped to get my system
to boot but I still can't get the system to boot without a boot disk and
passing linux nobiospnp at the boot prompt.
At 10:01 AM 2/15/2002 +, Rob wrote:
If
I just upgraded to a MSI K7T266 Pro with 1.3 GHZ Athlon and
512MB DDR RAM. LILO won't boot. I get LI and it hangs. An FAQ
suggested that /sbin/lilo be executed from a boot disk to correct the
problem. I did that and it still won't boot. So, I decided to reinstall
8.1. I still have the problem. Any
Tom Berger wrote:
root=/dev/hda5
That's only a start. Plainly, the /etc/fstab will now be incorrect
and will have to be altered as well. Best way might be to run the
other Linux, mount hda5 and reach in and edit fstab that way.
The best way is still to run only from the partition names
Hello
I installed another flavor of Linux, and now cannot get back into Mandrake.
I've booting into it from floppy, but the partition table has changed. I need
to tell it at the boot prompt that the boot part is at hda5 instead of hda6
now, how can I do this if its possible? Unfortunately I
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Hello
I installed another flavor of Linux, and now cannot get back into Mandrake.
I've booting into it from floppy, but the partition table has changed. I need
to tell it at the boot prompt that the boot part is at hda5 instead of hda6
now, how can I do this if
