Re: LILO

2000-10-21 Thread Ken M. Mevand
: LILO > "Ken" == Ken M Mevand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i created a /boot partition as the first partition of the disk > > (about 40M), and it still doesn't work. is LILO screwed? whenever i > > boot, the screen is filled with "01". i

Swap space signature

2000-10-20 Thread Ken M. Mevand
hi, anyone knows what the message "Unable to find swap space signature" means during boot? my swap partition is 40Mb on hdd2. -ken

Re: LILO

2000-10-20 Thread Ken M. Mevand
eater that 1024th cylinder. > > hte_pagan > On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 06:34:18PM +0800, Ken M. Mevand wrote: > > hi, > > just installed "slink". everything is ok, except that LILO is screwed. i > > installed LILO in the MBR of hda1. when i reboot the computer,

Re: LILO

2000-10-19 Thread Ken M. Mevand
thanks > lilo cant boot from partitions greater that 1024th cylinder. this is what is confusing me. Does this means that the partition must be entirely within the 1024th cylinder, or that the start of the partition must be before 1024?

LILO

2000-10-19 Thread Ken M. Mevand
hi, just installed "slink". everything is ok, except that LILO is screwed. i installed LILO in the MBR of hda1. when i reboot the computer, i can't see the letters "LILO" because the entire screen is filled with strings of "01". and it just keeps showing "01". so i can boot to windows or linux.

LILO

2000-10-18 Thread Ken M. Mevand
hi, just installed "slink". everything is ok, except that LILO is screwed. i installed LILO in the MBR of hda1. when i reboot the computer, i can't see the letters "LILO" because the entire screen is filled with strings of "01". and it just keeps showing "01". so i can boot to windows or linux.

Re: Installation - Driver Floppy Error

2000-10-09 Thread Ken M. Mevand
that during the installation, but it failed too. - Original Message - From: Eric G . Miller To: 02 Debian Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 1:04 PM Subject: Re: Installation - Driver Floppy Error > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:38:13PM +0800, Ken M. Mevand wrote: > > hi list,

Installation - Driver Floppy Error

2000-10-08 Thread Ken M. Mevand
hi list, i tried installing Debian from a disk i got in a book "Installing Debian GNU/Linux". when i got the "Installing Kernel and System Base", it complaints failed installing the driver floppy. is this because the disk is bad, or something else? can i skip this step? my system is a Cyr