I tried installing 8.0 on a friend's 800Mhz Thunderbird box and ran into
some problems with diskdrake. The first install attempt seemed to go
well, I set up the partitions within driskdrake, but I got the dreaded
"LI" on reboot. Several attempts to reinstall lilo gave the same
results. I tried changing bootloaders to GRUB and got "GRUB" on the
screen and no more.
Looking at the partion tables with another utility (Rannish Partition
Manager) showed a fairly scrambled partition table, though I was able to
boot from floppy if the floppy had a kernel on it.
Pre-generating the partition table with Rannish, diskdrake gave errors
about being unable to read the partition table. I aborted the install
at that point.
It is interesting to note that the Luser was insistent on placing the
Linux partitions in the last 4G of a 46G device, and so the boot loaders
would have needed to operate in LBA mode.
The diskdrake error is of more concern, however, as the text installer
actually presented a proposed partition table and wanted to format the
whole drive.
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