On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Chuck Collins wrote:
> I've installed RedHat 6.1 on a Prostar laptop. Most everything
> works OK except it will not boot from the hard disk. It will boot
> fine from floppy.
>
> I've run LILO directly, LILO thought everything went OK. I took a
> look at the first sector of /dev/hda, and it matched boot/boot.b .
>
> There was something in the HOWTOs about a protected MBR, and check the
> BIOS. But there is nothing in the BIOS that looked like it addressed this.
>
> There was something else about a 1024 sector limit and the boot program.
> This disk is 2Gb IBM, 4200 cyl x 16 heads x 63 sect. By my math, that
> means a cylinder is 1008 sectors, so that should not come into play.
>
> Who has a silver bullet for this problem?
install LILO into the root Linux partition?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Chuck Collins
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
