Re: tlug: RH 6 MBR install failure on 13 GB disk

[Neil Booth <NeilB@example.com>]

Hi Jonathan,

Don't know if it's the problem you're facing, but many BIOSes require
a partition (any partition whether bootable or otherwise) to be
flagged as active.

You might try booting from a floppy and ensuring there is such a
partition.

Neil.

Jonathan Byrne wrote:-
> Does anyone know any reason why RH 6 should apparently fail to install a LILO
> MBR on a 13 GB disk? The root partition was sized at 256 MB and there were
> several other partitions.  After 2 or 3 installs, all of which would never
> boot (Boot disk failure errors; no bootable devices were being found by the
> BIOS), installing LILO to a floppy made it successfully bootable and
> everything else worked.  I know LILO needs to be in the first 1024 cylinders,
> but are there any issues regarding large disks in general?
> 
> And of cousre, this morning I got to hear a BSD-leaning person say "I
> installed open BSD on it and it had no problems at all."  :-p
> 
> TIA,
> 
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