I have three harddrives:
hda is a 8GB
hdb is a 4GB
hdc is a 3GB
hda is partitions thusly:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 109 875511 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 110 141 257040 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 142 1027 7116795 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 142 269 1028128+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 270 512 1951866 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 513 1027 4136706 83 Linux
hda1 is empty right now...awaiting the time when I get
around to reinstalling windoze. I installed RH 6.1 and
selected to load lilo in the master boot record, which it
did (apparently) without error. Problem is, it doesn't
work. I bootup and get this message:
Not found any [active partition] HDD
Boot from CDROM: failure
I have my bios set to boot in this order: C, CDROM, A.
The only way I can bootup linux is via a bootdisk
in A:
No likey. Me want to to boot off the harddrive. I
thought I was careful to keep linux completely within
1024 cylinders - it is between 110 and 141 with
the drive set for LBA.
Why doesn't it work? Previously, I had windoze installed
on the first 800MB and linux on the following partions
(same drive). Now I only given the (future) windoze
50 more MB in the first primary. Other than that, the
only difference from before is that I had only 1 primary
partition, hda1, and linux installed on hda5 in an
extended logical. It now is in its own primary partition.
Is it that lilo/linux doesn't like the first partition
being empty? Is it that lilo/linux doesn't like being
on the second primary (yet STILL below 1024 cylinders)?
What do I need to do to fix this?
patrick
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