hello,
i have solverd the problem.
it was related to some disk geometry mismatch in the bios and
linux. i was trying witha 540 mb harddisk. later i tried with a 250 mb hdd
and in the first attempt itself worked fine
thanks for ur repies rohit
regards
divakaran
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Rohit wrote:
> > As u r able to boot from floppy use the command 'lilo' at the command
> > prompt. this will rewrite the mbr with the newer lilo installed and try
> > booting up the system again I feel U r lilo will start without any
> > problem else the BIG Gurus on the list will help U up.
>
> That gives me something to think about. What SHOULD a boot floppy
> contain in it?
> When the machine goes down, in DOS, we know that having fdisk.exe,
> system [io.sys, msdos.sys and command.com], format.com can give you a
> formatted drive. Fresh and new.
>
> What about Linux? I guess we should have...
>
> fdisk [cfdisk or ddruid]
> lilo
>
> AND???
> Rohit
>
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