Re: 1024 Cylinder Violation
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?
> On boot, now, LILO gets to `LIL' and then quits. I would very much like
> to restore this system to bootable status without any loss of (Windows)
> data. Any suggestions on my best course of action? I have access to a
> Windows machine with net access, the Debian rescue disk, Debian CDs, and
> a Windows 95 boot disk.
To remove lilo, you can boot with a win boot floppy a type fdisk /mbr.
This overwrites lilo in mbr and you can boot windows. After that, you
can only boot Debian with a boot floppy or rescue disk, so make sure you
have one and it works.
By, Sven
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