Even though I hated to do it, I wiped the disk and did a fresh
install. Still didn't fix the problem. Joe's nfo helped to get my system
to boot but I still can't get the system to boot without a boot disk and
passing "linux nobiospnp" at the boot prompt.
At 10:01 AM 2/15/2002 +0000, Rob wrote:
>If you are reinstalling and dont care about whats on the
disk
>then you can wipe the master boot record using
>a boot floppy and then typing
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
>Just leave that running for a couple of seconds and disk
>should now appear as an unpartitioned unformated disk
>to the installation program.
>
>Of course if you've got data on the disk you want
>do not do this.
>
>Other ideas.
>On next re-install complete the create boot disk
section.
>Make a sperate /boot partition within the first 2gigs of the
disk
>Make sure the disk is set to LBA in the bios (never too sure
bout
>this one but all mine are).
>
>Rob
>
>
>On Friday 15 February 2002 04:14, you wrote:
>> I just upgraded to a MSI K7T266 Pro with 1.3 GHZ Athlon and
512MB DDR RAM.
>> LILO won't boot. I get "LI" and it hangs. An FAQ
suggested that /sbin/lilo
>> be executed from a boot disk to correct the problem. I did
that and it
>> still won't boot. So, I decided to reinstall 8.1. I still
have the problem.
>> Any solutions or recommendations?
Encryption isn't just for secrets.......
