I thought I did that...maybe not. Besides, I have to do a complete
reinstall regardless because the the XFree86 4.0 install completely bombed
out. Fortunately, a HD based install goes pretty quickly.
J. Keith Wedinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://bearcatnews.com
GO BEARCATS!
-----Original Message-----
From: Mycroft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 10:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Cooker] LILO Installation Question/Problem
Crazy as it sounds, enable the 'LINEAR' option. You know, the one that
says it is for "Some SCSI Drives"
This is what it took to get my 20GB ATA-66 drive to boot, even just
running under 7.0
Michael Baumann
Coiler, Homebrewer, Nerd...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://home.earthlink.net/~mycroft2
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Keith Wedinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 7:29 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Cooker] LILO Installation Question/Problem
>
>
> I downloaded the latest Mandrake 7.1 beta installation tree and ran an
> install from my hard drive. The good news (!!) is that my Promise Ultra66
> controller was found during the install. And the new graphical install is
> quite good.
>
> Now the not-so-good news. I attempted to install LILO to /dev/hde (the
> master HD on my Promise controller). The install seemed to go OK
> (no error
> messages). However, when I rebooted my PC, the LILO prompt began
> to display
> but stopped cold after display LI. At this point, my PC was locked up. I
> had no other choice but to boot from my Windows 98 boot diskette and run
> fdisk /mbr to restore the MBR.
>
> My question is: where/how should I install LILO so that it works with the
> master HD on my Promise controller. This HD (/dev/hde) has the
> following on
> it:
>
> Primary Partition #1 (Drive C:, FAT32)
> Windows 2000 Server boot files (boot.ini, that sort of thing)
> Windows 98
>
> Primary Partition #2 (Drive I:, NTFS)
> Windows 2000 Server
>
> Primary Partition #3 (/, ext2)
> Root partition for Mandake 7.1
>
> Extended Partition with 2 logical FAT32 drives
>
> My 2nd hard drive (/dev/hda) is connected to the on-board IDE controller.
> It has the following:
>
> Extended Partition with 1 logical FAT32 drive
>
> Primary Partition (ext2)
> Linux swap for Mandrake 7.1
>
> Primary Partition (ext2)
> /var for Mandrake 7.1
>
> Primary Partition (ext2)
> /tmp for Mandrake 7.1
>
> J. Keith Wedinger
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://bearcatnews.com
> GO BEARCATS!
>
>
