> 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?
>
Billy Ball replied:
> install LILO into the root Linux partition?
I think I understand that comment, and I got another comment pointing out
my misunderstanding about 1024 Cylinders (not sectors).
I have run /sbin/lilo with three different "boot=/dev/hdaX" parameters,
/dev/hda /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda6 and after each, it still requires a
boot floppy.
Maybe if I provide more info someone can see where the problem is.
fdisk output:
Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 525 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 5 20128+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 6 525 2096640 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 6 38 133024+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 39 525 1963552+ 83 Linux
mount output:
/dev/hda6 on / type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
- Chuck Collins
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