Cannot boot from hard drive
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>Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 14:11:26 -0700
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>To: <lennox1@slb.com>
>From: Steve Byrne <sbb@freegate.com>
>Subject: Booting Linux
>
>Did you get an answer to your question yet?
>
>1) You might want to get the -fast version of the boot or rescue disk --
> the regular version is only for some particular floppy drives, and
> supposedly the -fast version will boot faster (I haven't done this yet,
> but I plan to)
>
>2) How far away is the start of your linux partition from the start of your
> disk? Over 512M? I got 4FA (instead of 1FA) when I tried to boot using
> LILO -- and then I remembered that the BIOS (which LILO needs to start
>things
> rolling), wasn't set up to read past some particular disk size (I think
>it's 1024M).
> (I have 800M for DOS/now Windows 95 at the front of the disk, and the
>Linux).
> Since it's on my son's machine, I haven't really pushed the issue too
>hard yet, but
> my plans of attack are (in no particular order)
>
> a) look at using fips (I think that's its name) to reparition the Win95
>partition
> smaller
> b) put loadlin onto the Win95 partition -- you can boot directly into
>Linux using
> that from Win95 or DOS (make sure the .bat file shortcut is marked as
>running in
> MSDOS mode).
> c) see if there are other ways to cause loading to occur, maybe by
>investigating newer
> LILO options or maybe using some other install program (syslinux?)
>
>One other thing: the disk in question is SCSI, so heads/cyls/sectors are a
>fluid affair. I
>had originally installed when the disk geometry (according to the kernel)
>was 16 heads, 32
>sectors. Later kernels changed this value to 63 heads, 128 sectors/track
>(I think) -- this
>causes lots of problems with LILO and Linux's fdisk because it thinks the
>partition doesn't
>start on a cylinder boundary.
>
>Steve
>
Worked it out! Thanks for the replies. I simply did not know that I
needed to
run LILO prior to booting from HD. Play and learn :)
Thanks again
-lennox
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