[Tfug] LILO

[Brian Murphy]

I don't see where you posted the real error message but even without
seeing it the problem is you're over the 1024 BIOS cylinder limit.

You should have installed with a small 50MB /boot as the first partition
on the disk.  You'll have to reinstall to add it now.

Brian

Quoting Eric Christian <ericdanc at alice-dsl.net>:
> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 02:24:42 -0700
>> From: Glen Pfeiffer <glen at thepfeiffers.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Tfug] LILO
>> To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
>> Message-ID: <20080519092442.GA15554 at thepfeiffers.net>
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>>
>> On Mon May 19, 2008 at 10:56:40AM +0200, Eric Christian wrote:
>>
>>> An install of debian 4.0r3 DVD i386 on a notebook here (Intel
>>> core 2 duo processor, Intel duo Processor)with 2 partitions,
>>> a 2 GB /swap and a / partition, proceeded with a number of
>>> things going wrong, the worst being not able to install LILO,
>>> so all is not bootable as is. i suppose one could make a
>>> USB-bootstick? But, i want LILO. what to do?
>>>
>>
>> Is there any reason you are choosing LILO? Grub is the default in
>> 4.0.
>>
>>
> just because i know Lilo and it was allways easy to config. i did try to
> install Grub from the DVD,
> but it failed too :-( . Could this be a BIOS problem, or a
> distro-hardware issue? Where are all those
> here saying "its simple as shoving in a DVD". In a way they're right, I
> guess, the install went fairly well
> (little things like vim failed). Only problem is, it's not bootable.
> another disto? net install to get a bootable minimal sys?
> Eric
>
>
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