[1073] in RedHat Linux List
Re: does fdisk?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrea Borgia)
Sat Oct 26 08:06:41 1996
From: bab0069@iperbole.bologna.it (Andrea Borgia)
To: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>,
"RedHat Mailing List" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 12:04:56 GMT
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On Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:03:09 -0400, you wrote:
>I went over all of this before, but I guess I'll try again.
>I have lilo on my system (lilo v19), my /etc/lilo.conf is correct, I run=
lilo -v
>and it shows me everything it does. No errors, no complaints, it appears=
to
>work perfect, I reboot, w/o a boot disk and I get 'DRIVE NOT READY, =
Insert BOOT
>diskette in drive A:' from the bios I presume, or the cpu. ANyhow, I've =
tried
>everything thats been suggested before, still it doesn't work. I have a =
1.275GB
>hard disk partioned off into about /dev/hda1 about 40MB swap, /dev/hda2 =
900+
>megs
>ext2 as / filesystem, and /dev/hda3 200 or so MB, ext2 as /tmp. This is =
exactly
>how I have my partions setup on another Linux system I have that works =
with
>lilo, except the exact partition sizes, this is a EIDE ATA-2 drive with =
a EIDE
>i/o card.=20
Maybe the kernel got written (by chance) past the 1024th cylinder and
Lilo (that depends on BIOS) can't load it. Should this be the case,
I'd suggest you to create a little partition at the beginning of the
HD and mount it on /boot (of course, move the contents of that
directory in the new partition).
Another solution would be changing the controller's way of addressing
the disk (switching to LBA, I think) but I don't know the gory details
since I'm using a SCSI disk. This requires reformatting and
repartitioning, though.
Just my two cents...
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