Re: Help: problem with booting from HD

1997-01-13 Thread Riku Saikkonen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >Thank you for the suggestion. this is what I got so far. I repartitioned >the disk with a 500mb primary partition for DOS (06) (some of my pc >friends insisted I put DOS as the first one :-), forllowed with >two 300mb primary linux partitions, and a 64

Re: Help: problem with booting from HD

1997-01-10 Thread Gertjan Klein
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "LILO Loading Linux > Uncompressing Linux..." > "crc error > System halted" Apparently, LILO was installed correctly, and accessed the /vmlinuz file without (disk i/o) errors. It seems, though, that the correct data wasn't loa

Re: Help: problem with booting from HD

1997-01-09 Thread R
Thank you for the suggestion. this is what I got so far. I repartitioned the disk with a 500mb primary partition for DOS (06) (some of my pc friends insisted I put DOS as the first one :-), forllowed with two 300mb primary linux partitions, and a 64mb logical linux swap, and 3 or 4 logical par

Re: Help: problem with booting from HD

1997-01-08 Thread Gertjan Klein
R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i made > four primary partition (500mb for linux native, 500mb for linux native, > 64mb for linux swap, and 900somethinb mb for DOS-32 bit) and marked all > but the linux swap as bootable. Install went thru without problem. This is a serious error: only _one_

Help: problem with booting from HD

1997-01-08 Thread R
Hi all, I am new to Linux. after studied various different distributions I decided to go with Debian. Having spent two days playing with it, now I have to ask for help :( I just bought a PC and download the 6 disks for base systems (rescue, devie, and base14-1 thru base14-4) and made two copies