RE: booting is very difficult

2001-11-16 Thread Justin Hahn
. > -Original Message- > From: Petr [Dingo] Dvorak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 4:47 PM > To: Debian-User > Subject: Re: booting is very difficult > > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Rory O'Connor wrote: > > RO> i just re-built my debian system

Re: booting is very difficult

2001-11-16 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Rory O'Connor wrote: RO> i just re-built my debian system from the disk image, and i'm having the RO> same problem i had before i rebuilt it -- it hangs at "LI" when trying to RO> boot from the hard disk. I can boot from the emergency floppy just fine RO> though. the only 2

Re: booting is very difficult

2001-11-16 Thread Kevin Beauchamp
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 02:42:07 -0600, Rory O'Connor wrote: >i just re-built my debian system from the disk image, and i'm having the >same problem i had before i rebuilt it -- it hangs at "LI" when trying to >boot from the hard disk. I can boot from the emergency floppy just fine >though. I just s

Re: booting is very difficult

2001-11-16 Thread Steve Kieu
--- Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some point you did not say I don't know for sure. > > Your hard driver geometry, is it over 1024 cylinder? > > Your lilo.conf > > should like this > > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/your_root > # if over 1024 > lba32 OOOP, I miss the word *not* so it

Re: booting is very difficult

2001-11-16 Thread ben
check the Bootdisk-HOWTO-12.html for specific LILO error codes. Rory O'Connor wrote: > > i just re-built my debian system from the disk image, and i'm having the > same problem i had before i rebuilt it -- it hangs at "LI" when trying to > boot from the hard disk. I can boot from the emergency

Re: booting is very difficult

2001-11-16 Thread Steve Kieu
Some point you did not say I don't know for sure. Your hard driver geometry, is it over 1024 cylinder? Your lilo.conf should like this boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/your_root # if over 1024 lba32 # must have option compact Check in BIOS, in the hard drive configuration, pls see if it has a featur

Re: booting is very difficult

2001-11-16 Thread Rory O'Connor
nel on the HD with the one from the floppy? thanks, rory - Original Message - From: "Joop Stakenborg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rory O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 2:52 AM Subject: Re: booting is very difficult

Re: booting is very difficult

2001-11-16 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 02:42:07 -0600 "Rory O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Apparantly it's complaining that there is no active boot partition, but it > states quite clearly in the lilo.conf file that boot=/dev/hda1 (and yes, i > did re-run lilo just to be sure). Wrong, should be 'boot=/