On Friday 02 November 2001 16:17, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > hello: > > i have just installed debian onto a "fresh" computer (no system on computer > before installaition) using the "leaning debian linux" cd. after much > handwringing and filling in the blanks, the installation completed > successful. we rebooted and the lilo prompt came up -- and nothing happens! > > rats! > > insert boot floppy made during installation. boot. all is well. > > check lilo.conf. looks good. run lilo. reboot. same thing.
Maybe you could post a copy of your lilo.conf. Where is the specified boot location? I remember someone else who had a problem when the location was /dev/sda1 ... changing it to simply /dev/sda worked for him. > > reboot from floppy and re-install kernel image from cd. run lilo. reboot. > same thing. > > reboot from floppy. scratch head! now what??? But it does succesfully boot from a floppy? If so then in my mind that reinforces what I wrote above. > > the disk setup is > > /dev/sda1 / 2000M > /dev/sda5 /tmp 100M > /dev/sda6 /usr 3500M > /dev/sda7 /var 1000M > /dev/sda8 /home 500M > /dev/sda9 /usr/src 1000M > /dev/sda10 swap 512M > /dev/sda11 /opt 1058M > > the next move is to update the kernel, etc, using dselect. > > any ideas why the drive is *not* booting on its own???? Another possibility is that /dev/sda1 is crossing that nebulous concept of the 1024th cylinder which I don't quite fully understand... -- David P. James Third Year Economics Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario http://members.home.com/dpjames/ The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe. -Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Trek IV
