FH> Hi good people..
FH> I have just bought a new 41 gig IBM hard drive for my FH> old heap of a home server. (IBM 300PL. 233mmx HX FH> chipset, 160MB ram, TNT2 Video.) FH> Anyway, I installed the drive, the 300PL saw it as an FH> 8.4 gig drive.. (and thats after I flashed the latest FH> IBM bios.) FH> Still, I thougt if it works as an 8.4 that will do.. FH> But the Mandrake 8.2 install saw the full 41 gig and FH> partitioned and installed accordingly. FH> All went well, including setting up X and everything FH> else.. so I had lilo written to the MBR and went to FH> restart my new install. FH> No good, it couldn't find the boot record.. kept askin FH> for a bootable media. FH> So I tried writing lilo to /dev/hda5 which is my /root FH> partition, but that resulted in the same thing.. (is FH> it possible that I can only load lilo to the /root FH> partition if there is no seperate /boot partition?) FH> After makin everything XFS and then discovering there FH> was no way to make a boot disk, I reloaded with FH> everytyhing as Reiserfs except /boot and /root which FH> were ext3.. so now the only way to get my system up FH> and running is via a boot disk, although it works FH> perfectly from that point on, including X and all... FH> How can I got my system to boot from the hard disk??? FH> does anyone know what I could try? FH> I found some utils on the IBM hard drive site for FH> this, but they all turned out to be winblows stuff, FH> even though you could make their disks from linux, FH> they still wanted to format everything in fat or fat32 FH> and load dos TSR's.. which is not alot of good in a FH> linux system. FH> Any help would be wonderful.. FH> many thanks FH> kindest regards FH> Frank Hauptle. FH> PS.. I apologise for not posting much lately, but I FH> still have not got a domain that mandrake accepts for FH> posting mail, and yahoo via the web is a pain in the FH> tookus.. so I only post now when I'm desperate, at FH> least until I find a good easy method.. FH> thanks again..... :-) First of all, when you are using a journal filesystem, reiser, XFS etc. I suggest you have a seperate partition for /boot, and never install lilo to the head of "/" partition. EXT3 is slow, try reiser or XFS. Your trouble seems to be related to bios, that is not capable of defining the size of your disk, which is common for many of the old boxes. Still lilo overcomes this usually. I suggest you boot from a floppy disk, and not get much deeper on this size thing. What may look bad, is the delay caused by the floppy. To overcome this, boot your system, put in a fresh floppy, open up "/etc/lilo.conf", change "boot=/dev/hda" (or something similiar) to "boot=/dev/fd0", save, type "lilo" to make it write lilo to the disk. It will make things a lot faster. Regards, Onur Kucuk _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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