Problem with booting from hard disk

["Ólafur Freyr Hjálmsson" <oli_freyr@hotmail.com>]

Hello

I installed Debian 2.0 the other day. I had a problem in the beginning  
because I had to give the physical dimensions of the hard disk as a
parameter to the installation kernel. Anyway, it is now installed but 
I'm not able to boot from the hard disk. I chose not to install lilo 
in the master boot record and then I use a boot manager to choose
which OS to boot (WinNT/Win98/Linux). The boot manager is called 
System Commander and should be able to recognize Linux well enaugh.

Here's some output from fdisk:

Disk /dev/hdb: 15 heads, 63 sectors, 13328 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *        1        1      433   204561   83  Linux native
/dev/hdb2         4096     4336     8670  2048287+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hdb3         8192     8671    13328  2200905   17  Unknown
/dev/hdb4          434      434     4335  1843695    5  Extended
/dev/hdb5          434      434     3642  1516221   83  Linux native
/dev/hdb6         3072     3643     4075   204561   83  Linux native
/dev/hdb7         3072     4076     4335   122818+  82  Linux swap

Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            1        1      128  1028128+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/sda2          256      256     1106  6835657+   5  Extended
/dev/sda3          129      129      255  1020127+  17  Unknown
/dev/sda5          256      256      510  2048256    7  OS/2 HPFS
/dev/sda6          511      511      765  2048256    7  OS/2 HPFS
/dev/sda7          766      766     1020  2048256    7  OS/2 HPFS
/dev/sda8         1021     1021     1106   690763+   7  OS/2 HPFS

sda is the boot disk and hdb1 is the "/" partition.
I've tried this lilo.conf (and yes, I ran lilo afterwards)

boot=/dev/hdb1
root=/dev/hdb1
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
append="hdb=13328,15,63 mem=128M"
read-only
default=Linux
image=/vmlinuz
	label=Linux
	alias=Debian 
	vga=normal
image=/vmlinuz_orig
	label=Linux_orig 
	alias=backup

but all I get when I choose it from the boot menu is 
LI
and then nothing.
If anyone is able to help me with this I would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance, Óli


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