lilo Booting problem..

[Gareth <gwalters@metz.une.edu.au>]

G'day all,
I have a machine running redhat that I am about to upgrade rebuild as a
debian system. 
I have been having a problem booting and was wondering if I could
find a solution to implement when I change to debian.

There are only  SCSI disks 
/dev/sda2             900833  735118   119175     86%   /
/dev/sdc1            8595876 5910768  2239306     73%   /home/u3
/dev/sda1             100118   14594    80354     15%   /var/spool
/dev/sdb1             598634  364658   203053     64%   /home/www
I am currently booting from the floppy as when it tries to boot from one
of the HD's it locks up at LILO

I see LI on the screen and it freezes (which as I understand it means that
it failed to load the secondary boot record)

Now the other weird thing is in an attempt to diagnose this problem I used
fdisk and lilo to change all the partions to be non bootable and not
have a LILO boot record but it still does the same thing even though there
are no bootable partions and no partions with a LILO signature
 
Then I made /dev/sda2 bootable again and still the same error!!

I know the 9Gig disk might cause trouble but its not booting from it so it
should be ok (is this correct?).

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get it booting from a HD???

Thanks in advance for any help.


---Gareth