Mkd 8.0 box says MINIMUM install requirements are: 32MB RAM (text) install or 64MB for graphical 500MB free hard drive space withe 800MB recommended It looks like you may have tried to put Linux on your first hard drive which does not contain enough space. You will have to put part of the install on your second drive.. I think that requires the EXPERT install options so you can set up /usr and /home on your second drive. ******************************************** n Tuesday 21 August 2001 02:51 pm, you wrote: > I tried /sbin/lilo, but that didn't have any effect. I also tried entering > the parameters reported by fdisk into the BIOS, but then it gave me a > "Primary Hard Disk Failure" error message while trying to initialize the > drive (in BIOS). > > When I installed linux (the first time), I told it to completely erase the > drive (which had previously been formatted for Win95). Is there a > possibility that something didn't get overwritten and is messing it up? > > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Jeremy Davidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [newbie] LILO freezes up on bootup > Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:02:10 -0400 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Received: from [216.71.84.35] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id > MHotMailBD4C0949001E40043715D847542370BA0; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:02:18 -0700 > Received: from civileme.masndrakesoft.com (office [195.68.114.34])by > mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA27946;Tue, 21 > Aug 2001 15:02:15 -0500 > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:02:58 -0700 > X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Tuesday 21 August 2001 14:54, Jeremy Davidson wrote: > > I'm a new Linux-mandrake user (just installed 8.0), but I'm having > > trouble > > > getting it to boot up. Whenever I start it up, I get a "LI" on the > > screen > > > (as though it started to say LILO or something) where it used to say > > things > > > like "Starting Win...". The computer just stops right there. > > > > I've tried installing three times, and it's the same every time. Once I > > did an expert install, during which I chose to create a bootup floppy. > > The > > > floppy works fine -- I can boot Linux up and get everything to work. Is > > there some way to restore the hard drive boot sector or something? > > > > Here's my computer specs: > > Asus Socket7 motherboard with Cyrix 333Mhz chip > > 24MB RAM (with 1MB stolen for on-board video) > > 420MB HD (used for Linux install) > > 384MB HD (hopefully be able to use for extra data) > > > > Thanks for any help anyone might have! > > > > Jeremy > > surprising you can get it to work with that little memory. The box says 32 > Mb and not shared. > > OK what you probably have is the BIOS and the OS disagreeing on disk > geometry. > > But if you can get it running with the floppy, try running /sbin/lilo > without any modifications > > If that doesn't work, boot with the floppy and run > > fdisk -l /dev/hda and copy down the cylinders heads and sectors from that > > Then reboot and go into your BIOS and force it to be the same. > > Civileme > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > ---------------------------------------- > Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Description: > ---------------------------------------- > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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