From: Ronan Cunniffe (rcunniff at domain wilde.cs.tcd.ie)
Date: Fri 21 Sep 2001 - 20:01:06 IST
I have a k6-200 machine, which I can't get to boot from hd.
Once booted from a kernel floppy, there's no problem, LILO
installs fine, but on a reboot it gets to 'LI' and no further.
Q. Have you RTFM?
A. Yes, O Guru.
Q. Have you *understood* TFM?
A. Um... not entirely. So this is what I "know". Can someone
knowledgeable confirm/correct the following?
Stopping at 'LI' is a feature, not a bug. It means that the first stage
has loaded (in MBR/partition BB), but the second (in one of those
mysterious files in /boot?) has not. This means the correct partition is
set bootable, that LILO has been correctly installed, but that stage 1
can't call up stage 2. This sounds like LBA vs 'LARGE' vs BIOS mebollox
I thought I'd got a grip on.... except I've very carefully kept / in the
first 1024 cylinders (it's the first 64MB! I was desperate!) So my only
guess is that there's a change in numbering scheme, and LILO is looking in
the wrong place.
Go on, somebody.... show forth your mystic aura....
Ronan C.
P.S. Said machine's BIOS has recently started reporting drives on the
secondary controller as being on the primary, and not detecting drives
mounted on the primary, so if the answer to my problem is 'get a mobo with
a better BIOS' I won't be too disturbed. At least any more disturbed than
usual. ;-(
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