On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Matt wrote:
> OK, your lilo.conf looks good to me. You were saying that if you were to
> delete the "1" after "boot=/dev/hda" on the second line of /etc/lilo.conf,
> save the file, and run /sbin/lilo, then you get the error "Fatal:
> Partition entry not found", correct?
>
No, I didn't remove the "1". Hoyt suggested that in his email, and
I'll try that later tonight.
>Tell me, what program did you use to
> partition your drive?
I used "cfdisk', which was supposed to be a better alternative ti
"fdisk".
> Here, I see the partition ending before the cylinder: we've 240 logical
> heads in this cylinder, and the partition ends on the 179th. Now, Linux
> shouldn't care about this, so as long as you're not trying to dual-boot,
> you ought to be okay.
>
No, there is only Linux on both of my computers.
> Same problem on all the rest. I don't know why this is happening. I can
> say the only way to fix it is to delete and remake the partitions. If you
> do that, you'll also lose and have to remake you filesystems, too.
>
That I can do without too much problem. I have everything important
(along with my cutomizations), tarred and gzipped on another drive.
I could re-install from CD-ROM, then re-install my backup. It's just
time-consuming...
Scott Boyd
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