Ok, friend-of-Leanne, all is probably not lost...
I'm a Solaris rather than Linux Admin by traded, so someone more knowledgeable
in the Linux boot process please correct me if I'm wrong. What I'm about to
suggest to diagnose the problem will not however make anything worse.
1. I'm assuming you've installed LILO and are loading the kernel off your hard
drive.
2. Try booting off your rescue floppy.
3. Confirm that when the kernel loads that it sees your hard drive /dev/hda (it
should have as you wouldn't have got as far as you did previously when
attempting to boot off your hard drive).
4. Next get a Unix shell (Alt- or Ctrl- F2 from memory...).
5. Next lets see if fdisk can recognise your disk (you should see something
similar to the following):
# fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1869.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help):
6. Next type "p" to print the partition table. You should hopefully see
something similar to:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1869 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1869 15012711 83 Linux
E-mail me on whether or not you can get this far.
Gary
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