Re: tlug: LILO hosed II - the next day

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> Thanks for all the input so far on my LILO problem.  I do have some progress
> to report and have apparently found the culprit.  When looking at the
> Advanced Settings section of my BIOS, I found that the large disk access
> mode had become DOS instead of Other.  Since I never touched this but know
> for certain that it was previously set to Other, I'm mystified as to what
> caused this, setting it back to Other fixed the problem with reporting the
> number of heads on my 6.4 GB disk, and fdisk now reports 16 heads, 63
> sectors, 12592 cyclinders.  So far, so good.

Is your CMOS battery possibly low?

> 
> Running LILO from a shell prompt works.  So far, so good.
> 
> BUT - at bootup, it still gets as far as printing LI and then freezes, so
> I'm still using a sysboot disk to boot the system.  The boot partition is
> completely within the first 1024 cylinders, so this should work (indeed, it
> used to), so I'm kind of stumped as to why it doesn't now.  What's the final
> magic key I need to get it back to normal?

try using fdisk to mark /dev/hda2 as bootable.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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