Quoting Net Llama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm in the process of building a new PC to replace my aging PII-400
> box.
> The trick is that I want to copy over the data from the old to the new.
>
> I've got a nice 30GB IDE drive in the new box, and i've successfully
> copied all the data with the following partition table:
>
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>
> Attempts to boot into Linux result in the dreaded "010101010101010110"
> series of errors filling the screen. FWIW, i can boot into Windoze
> just
> fine, so this is purely a LILO problem.
>
> Normally, i'd assume that this is that dreaded 1024 cylinder issue, but
> as the fdisk output above indicates, /boot is well below the 1024th
> cylinder. I'm really not sure what else could be the problem here.
>
> I've been fighting this since Friday night with virtually no progress,
> so i'd appreciate the wisdom of any of your LILO gurus. I'm really
> eager to get this new box up & running, since its a significant
> hardware
> improvement over the older one.
I'd suggest that you not write lilo until your HD is where it's going to
say...in it's home of /dev/hda. At one point, I only had one HD and when I was
building a gateway from an old machine, I'd just hook the new HD (which usually
came from a slower machine) up to IDE channel 2 and do the install on the
faster machine. Did this several times with great success, until I added a
second HD to the machine permanently and tried to do this with the new HD
as /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd.
I was never able to get the bugger to work until I put it in it's destination
machine (a P90) and used TomsRtBt to fix lilo. I can't say with certainty that
it wouldn't work because the HD was on the second IDE channel, but it would
appear in my case that it was...might be worth a try.
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