Re: Unable to boot from HD - or make boot floppy
Hello
Daniel Miller (<dmiller@amfes.com>) wrote:
> I've a got machine that I've been fighting with to make a usable
> router. Debian Woody installed just dandy - but I cannot get it to
> boot using either LILO or GRUB - I get errors going to stage 1.5 from
> GRUB and LILO usually hangs up with L0 L0 L0, etc.
I think the exact the lilo error message can be translated into
something readably by humans. Please consult the lilo documentation for
that.
> I'm assuming this is a hard drive / bios problem - I've used cfdisk to
> eliminate all partitions, started from scratch, and same mproblem.
Depending on the age of the computer/BIOS, you may need to create the
partition with the Kernel and lilo within the first 1024 cylinders of
the hard disk. If lilo is not installed into the MBR, make sure the
partition where lilo is installed is marked bootable/active and you
have a standard MBR that accesses the active partition, or some other
boot manager installed in the MBR that can start lilo.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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