Re: Debian Parititioning Trouble

[Mike Egglestone <megglestone@heritage.sd57.bc.ca>]

Hi,

You could try this:

boot up with a dos or windows boot disk that has fdisk on it
run this:
fdisk /mbr

then reboot and start your install over or use a debian rescue disk
to boot into the system, and then re-run lilo.

HTH,
Mike
Quoting JakeCatfox@aol.com:

> I'm trying to set up a machine I just built to run Debian. It installs
> fine, 
> but LILO says it cannot install itself on the hard disk due to an error,
> (I 
> forgot what it says precisely, but it says this is a common problem with
> 
> disks over 500mb.) It suggests making a /boot partition at the start of
> the 
> disk, but I do not understand how to do that. I tried installing it in
> the 
> root partition's boot sector and writing an MBR, but the system can't
> find 
> the OS when I boot with it that way.
> 
> Does anyone know what I should do?
> 
> Thanks,
> Deven G.
> 
> 
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