On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:01:19PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > > Just wanted to say that I've solved my lilo problems. I hooked up an old > disk with debian on it and used the lilo on that. Now my new IBM hard > drive boots properly (when made the third drive). > > I am still curious about why it the partition table of the IBM drive is > not recognized when made the first drive. But this is more a matter of > curiosity than anything --- the main thing is that I now have a working > debian installation again! check the BIOS configuration, many BIOSes allow you to configure the `mode' of disks in order of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th. if the 3rd disk is configured in say `standard CHS' mode, and the first disk is configured in LBA mode then a disk partitioned when attached as the 3rd disk won't work as the first disk unless you change the settings to CHS from LBA (in this example). at least that is my experience on the matter, i had a disk in a machine configured to CHS mode and partitioned that way (by linux fdisk) later the BIOS got reset and it put the disk into LBA mode and LILO quit working. changing the BIOS back to CHS mode fixed it. IOW the PC BIOS/partition table sucks. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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