Re: New Install -- No Operation System found
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 12:24:07PM +0000, Jeremy Gunter wrote:
> Hello,
> I have just installed slink onto a new 4GB hard disk (the 2GB that was in
> it failed last week). Lilo does not seem to write the boot sector to the
> disk, however. When I try to boot from the disk it says that there is no
> operation system. When I run Lilo it appears to function correctly, and I
> have confirmed that the partition is set to active...
>
> To get the drive geometry to come up correctly under cfdisk during the
> install I had to give it the exact CHS geometry (hda=8912,15,63). If I now
> boot the system with the floppy and do not pass it this geometry, cfdisk
> claims it to be a 200GB hard disk (I wish!) and Lilo fails saying that
> there is an invalid partition table.
>
> I suspect that Lilo is writing the boot record somewhere different from
> where the bios expects to find it -- although I admit I am somewhat
> guessing at this point. Thanks for any help you can give me!
I've had numerous problems of this typd using cfdisk. I've started
using fdisk instead during installations (type alt-F2 and hit return to
get a shell prompt) and had much better results. If your BIOS supports
it, you should probably use LBA to get under 1024 cylinders.
Bob
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