Turns out everyone's suggestions were correct. The biggest overall problem was that the ancient version of LILO that I was using just couldn't deal with the newer BIOS & HD that i was using. I upgraded to the latest stable version of LILO, and that got rid of the weird 'invalid partition table' errors immediately. But, alas, i was still not able to boot the box. So i booted off of a very, very handy Linuxcare Emergency boot CD (think Tom's RBD on crack). Its a 40MB CD the size of a business card that has basically 95% of /sbin, /bin & /usr on it, making it a mini-OS on a CD. Anyone interested in getting an ISO of this CD, let me know, and i will gladly post it somewhere publicly accessible. Granted, you'd not be able to squeeze it onto the business card shaped CD, but it would still be a life saver. I personally find TRBD a royal PITA, since it has very limited tools on it. anyway, i digress... Using this in the new box, I was able to mount all the partitions, fix lilo.conf to be accurate with the 'lba32' option, and write it to hda3. A quick reboot, and i was in business. Thanks to everyone who gave really good suggestions! --- Ian Marchak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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: > > > <SNIP-A-ROONIE> > > > > 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. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux FAQ & Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
