In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kero van Gelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I don't have such BIOS functions available. My BIOS just says that I
> > have a 2 GB hard disc. That's all. I can't change anything.
> Too bad.
> Whether you can solve this or not, you might want to upgrade your
> BIOS :-)
Well, it /is/ the latest version of the BIOS! It's SystemSoft's mobile
BIOS in the latest version.
> > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > > > > /dev/hda1 * 1 3 12064+ 83 Linux
> > > > > /dev/hda2 4 36 133056 82 Linux swap
> > > > > /dev/hda3 37 525 1971648 83 Linux
> Last try:
> the 12064 has a `+' behind it. That's not good. As you might know, the
> number of cylinders is fake, to fool the BIOS. fdisk has other ways of
> counting allocated space on the disk (don't ask me what or how). The
> `+' means a mismatch.
Oh, that's an idea!
> You might try the End at 2 (instead of 3) and see whether the `+'
> disappears. If so, rerun LILO and try to boot again.
[snip]
> PS: I believe it should disappear when you change from 3 to 2. If not,
> try 4 (and decrease your swap partition size). There is some old docs
> that tell about those mismatches, but I can't remember where :-(
Well, ATM I have installed Windows 98 just in order to see whether
booting works at all (people have suggested to me that I should check
this first), which it does. So I'll test this when installing Linux
again.
Thanks for the tipp.
Greetings,
Stefan.
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