It *may* be a problem with drive paramaters, but that's not the most likely
source of the problem. A half-gig drive on an old system is unlikely to have
weird parameters. More likely is a failure to write the Master Boot Record
correctly. If this is the problem, you probably need to do the following:
1. Boot using a floppy that will set your hard disk partition (probably
/dev/hda1) as root (/). Slackware "rescue disks" do this; I imagine RH ones
do as well.
2. Log in as root and run "lilo".
3. See if you can boot from the hard disk now.
I don't use RH, but I've had a similar problem with Slackware 3.5. The setup
routines didn't run lilo properly (though they set up lilo.conf just fine),
and all I needed to do was run it by hand.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
At 10:19 AM 1/19/99 -0000, De Croes Francis wrote:
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>But (of course, a but)...
>When the machine finaly rebooted, I found out that it did not boot..
>"PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT" was the message witch came on and on and on...
>I have the impression that the system does not recognize the hard drive at
boottime any more, because the BIOS SETUP still does.
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