Re: [expert] TOTALLY STUMPED!!! I can't make my 9.1 GB IBM IDE work with LILO on Helios

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: > This is overcomplicated, isn't it? Why can't he create a small (say 500MB) > '/' partition at the beginning of the HD? He can put /var and /usr to take > up the rest of the space... > Well, if anything, I'd create two partitions... /boot and /. :-) However, it s

Re: [expert] TOTALLY STUMPED!!! I can't make my 9.1 GB IBM IDE work with LILO on Helios

1999-10-13 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 08:57 AM 10/13/99 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: >On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: >> Very bizarre. I install 6.1 to my new 9.1 GB IBM DeskStar just fine. >> On re-boot, LILO hangs at LI. I have tried the 'linear' mode setting, >> hda=1108,255,63 kernel option, and it just won't work. However, if

Re: [expert] TOTALLY STUMPED!!! I can't make my 9.1 GB IBM IDE work with LILO on Helios

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Very bizarre. I install 6.1 to my new 9.1 GB IBM DeskStar just fine. > On re-boot, LILO hangs at LI. I have tried the 'linear' mode setting, > hda=1108,255,63 kernel option, and it just won't work. However, if I > install Mandrake Venus 6.0, it works fine. Ple

[expert] TOTALLY STUMPED!!! I can't make my 9.1 GB IBM IDE work with LILO on Helios

1999-10-11 Thread timothylewis
Very bizarre. I install 6.1 to my new 9.1 GB IBM DeskStar just fine. On re-boot, LILO hangs at LI. I have tried the 'linear' mode setting, hda=1108,255,63 kernel option, and it just won't work. However, if I install Mandrake Venus 6.0, it works fine. Please Help!!! Thanks guys and gals, Tim