LILO won't work on a Inspiron 8000

[Yannick Asselin <yasselin@magma.ca>]

Hi guys.

I've been trying to get debian (woody) installed on my new I8000 and I can't 
get past the lilo installation. I'm using the compact diskette set and doing a 
network (http) installation.

Here's how I partitionned my drive (fdisk printout)

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3890 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

  Device   Boot      Start          End      Blocks    ID  System
/dev/hda1    *          28          659      5076540    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2               26           27        16065   83  Linux
/dev/hda3              660         1322      5325547+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5              660          902      1951866   83  Linux
/dev/hda6              903         1291      3124611   83  Linux
/dev/hda7             1292         1322       248976   82  Linux swap

There's a empty part (for hibernation) at the beginning and the end of it 
hasn't been formatted yet (it's a 32GB IBM drive). hda2 would be /boot, hda5 
would be /, and hda6 would be /usr.

Now it won't work to put the boot part in either hda2 or MBR. I tried with and 
without the hda2 enabled for boot. It won't even create a boot disk. I also 
tried booting with the rescue disk and giving it "rescue boot=/dev/hda5" but 
nothing seems to work. Am I doomed to use WinME??

Thanks!
Yannick