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Re: Slightly failed Hard-Disk-Upgrade




hi ya kieren

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Kevin Mark wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 08:24:35AM +1100, Kieren wrote:
> > 
> > I have followed the Hard-Disk-Upgrade to the best of my ability,
> > upgrading the 3.5 gb hard drive on my old pentium 100 (Dell) laptop to
> > a 30 gig hard drive.  Everything went well, except that when I boot I
> > get the following:
> > 
> > Loading Linux ...............................
> > 
> > 
> > Then everything stops.


yup it will stop... unless you have /flash/vmlinuz

stick a bootable cdrom into your laptop ...

fix lilo.conf the way it should be ??
 
> > My /etc/lilo.conf looks like this:
> > 
> > lba32
> > disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x80
> > boot=/dev/hdc1
> > root=/dev/hda1

you have 2 disks ???

usually, 
	boot=/dev/hda

	root=/dev/hda1  or whatever you installed for /

> > map=/flash/boot/map
> > install=/flash/boot/boot.b

yuou need to change /flash to something that exists /??
	typically /boot instead

> > vga=normal
> > append="apm=on"
> > default=Linux
> > image=/flash/vmlinuz # This drive is mounted on /flash when 

looks like you're playing with flash ??

c ya
alvin




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