Jonathan David Pearce wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Sven Garbade wrote: > > >Jonathan David Pearce wrote: > >> > >> I installed potato on a friend's computer using the CDs and foolishly > >> disregarded the warning telling me the kernel must reside on the first > >> 1024 cylinders. The computer is question is a Pentium 90 with a 10 gig > >> disk, a 2 gig disk and a preexisting Windows 95 installation. I was > >> installing Debian on a couple of unpartitioned gigs at the end of the > >> drive. > > > >There are two disks in the computer? On which one you have installed > >Debian and where have you installed lilo? > > The large disk (10 gig) has both the Debian base system and lilo. The > small disk has just (Windows) data; the large disk has the Win95 > installation.
I presume that the small disk is the first disk on the first controler (/dev/hda). Do you have specified the boot device correctly in lilo.conf? boot=/dev/hda By, Sven
