Re: LILO won't work on a Inspiron 8000
Hi !
You can boot up with rescue disk as follows: rescue root=/dev/hda5
Why won't lilo put the boot to MBR ?
Send your lilo.conf please, and I'll try to help.
Bye.
Yannick Asselin wrote:
> 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
>
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