Re: 1024 Cylinder Violation
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Sven Garbade wrote:
>Jonathan David Pearce wrote:
>>
>> I installed potato on a friend's computer using the CDs and foolishly
>> disregarded the warning telling me the kernel must reside on the first
>> 1024 cylinders. The computer is question is a Pentium 90 with a 10 gig
>> disk, a 2 gig disk and a preexisting Windows 95 installation. I was
>> installing Debian on a couple of unpartitioned gigs at the end of the
>> drive.
>
>There are two disks in the computer? On which one you have installed
>Debian and where have you installed lilo?
The large disk (10 gig) has both the Debian base system and lilo. The
small disk has just (Windows) data; the large disk has the Win95
installation.
>> On boot, now, LILO gets to `LIL' and then quits. I would very much like
>> to restore this system to bootable status without any loss of (Windows)
>> data. Any suggestions on my best course of action? I have access to a
>> Windows machine with net access, the Debian rescue disk, Debian CDs, and
>> a Windows 95 boot disk.
>
>To remove lilo, you can boot with a win boot floppy a type fdisk /mbr.
>This overwrites lilo in mbr and you can boot windows. After that, you
>can only boot Debian with a boot floppy or rescue disk, so make sure you
>have one and it works.
>
>By, Sven
Mmm, sounds good. Will try as soon as I leave work.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Pearce
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