>Don't you partitioned your HD on a computer, and move >it to another? >(or activated LBA on one and not on the other?)
No, I partitioned using the Stormix linux installer, then poped the debian CD into the SAME computer and re-booted. I just tried different linux distro's till I found one that would appear to see the whole disk an partition it. >Huuu? Why such a big '/'????? (use fractionnal >installation: / + >/usr + /home .....; in case of trouble, you'll only >loose a few >information) >You can 'lilo-jump' from partition to partition: I had >the same PB, >so I put a lilo in the MBR, with a jump to /, then >another in /, >jumping to extended partition (diff. <= 1024), then >another to other >linux partition...... And it worked. I know that many recommend using multiple partitions. But if you have no idea about how large /usr, /home, need to be it's hard to guess how many partitions and how large each should be. Also I think that the idea of many partitons made sense when disks were smaller. >Linux used bios *only* at boot time, then it use its >own setup; so if >bios and linux settings do not agree at boot, there >might be some >problems. >Try: >0)- Read *attentively* /usr/doc/lilo contents, it can >help >1)- Add a line in /etc/lilo.conf: linear (after root >& boot >declarations) > Even if its not mandatory, it can't hurt. >2)- Bios manual setup, according to what fdisk says >(in my [short] > experience, fdisk is *always* right),$ >3)- If (2) don't work, then add a new line in lilo: > append="hd=cyls,heads,sctrs", where CHS are the >numbers that bios > says. So where does fdisk get it's idea of disk size and layout? >Anyway, if you partitioned you're HD on a computer, >and installed it on >another, you could have troubled: I made the mystake >from a brand new >PII-400 to an old 486-PCI-ISA: The 486 bios was unable >to handle a >number >of heads > 16. So I turned the both of them in LBA >mode and it worked, >but I was obliged to add 'linear' in /etc/lilo.conf >because without >that >line, the HD refused to boot directly (but was Ok with >a diskette >boot). Again the disk never left the computer. Also it does boot just fine now, I'm worried that my partition layout id flawed and will eventually fail. === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or ..... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
