Hello I installed Debian 2.0 the other day. I had a problem in the beginning because I had to give the physical dimensions of the hard disk as a parameter to the installation kernel. Anyway, it is now installed but I'm not able to boot from the hard disk. I chose not to install lilo in the master boot record and then I use a boot manager to choose which OS to boot (WinNT/Win98/Linux). The boot manager is called System Commander and should be able to recognize Linux well enaugh.
Here's some output from fdisk: Disk /dev/hdb: 15 heads, 63 sectors, 13328 cylinders Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 1 433 204561 83 Linux native /dev/hdb2 4096 4336 8670 2048287+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hdb3 8192 8671 13328 2200905 17 Unknown /dev/hdb4 434 434 4335 1843695 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 434 434 3642 1516221 83 Linux native /dev/hdb6 3072 3643 4075 204561 83 Linux native /dev/hdb7 3072 4076 4335 122818+ 82 Linux swap Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 1 128 1028128+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/sda2 256 256 1106 6835657+ 5 Extended /dev/sda3 129 129 255 1020127+ 17 Unknown /dev/sda5 256 256 510 2048256 7 OS/2 HPFS /dev/sda6 511 511 765 2048256 7 OS/2 HPFS /dev/sda7 766 766 1020 2048256 7 OS/2 HPFS /dev/sda8 1021 1021 1106 690763+ 7 OS/2 HPFS sda is the boot disk and hdb1 is the "/" partition. I've tried this lilo.conf (and yes, I ran lilo afterwards) boot=/dev/hdb1 root=/dev/hdb1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 append="hdb=13328,15,63 mem=128M" read-only default=Linux image=/vmlinuz label=Linux alias=Debian vga=normal image=/vmlinuz_orig label=Linux_orig alias=backup but all I get when I choose it from the boot menu is LI and then nothing. If anyone is able to help me with this I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Óli ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com