The two different BIOS are likely using a different mapping
scheme for the disk geometry. This messes up LILO, and you see the LI
prompt.
You might be able to access the partition with a boot
disk...you'll read the FAQ's on disk geometry.
My suggestion would be to backup the drive's data across a network
connection, put it in the new machine, and repartition/format it.
Brian
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, tom carlile wrote:
>
> so i tried to upgrade from a pII 300MHz to a athlon 700MHz.
> i switched out my Asus P2B with a Asus K7M with a new athlon
> 700 and connected all the cards and drives. same exact setup,
> just a different mobo and a different cpu. upon boot i get
> the good old "LI" prompt.
> i thought i'd boot off a floppy and play with lilo, but booting
> off my floppy and my debian2.1 cdrom seem to be impossible,
> the boot hangs somewhere around the part after the loading
> of the "md driver."
> so i was kind of stuck, i thought maybe there was a problem with
> my drives, since the P2B supported UDMA/33 and this board is
> UDMA/66, but the ide boot drive is a 10G, so i'd think it would
> be new enough to be compatible. i've tried many trial and error
> approaches to BIOS settings...
> so i don't know what to do at this point, game over, so i had
> to revert back to using the old P2B and 300MHz. system
> came up fine, so it's not bad drives.
>
> one strange thing though is that my window manager of
> choice (sawmill) doesn't work, when i startx it just hangs,
> blackbox works fine...no errors on the console either. another
> oddity is that when i run Eterm it takes FOREVER to give me
> a command prompt, while xterm is normal. i don't know why
> Eterm could be taking so long...
> (note that i think this is probably the first reboot since i installed
> xf4.0, i don't know how a reboot would matter though...)
>
> i'd really appreciate some help on this, i have two K7M boards
> and two 700MHz cpus just sitting here, laughing at me.
>
> i didn't know we were having a meeting tomorrow...are we?
>
> --
> tom carlile [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> professional systems wrangler http://sacrilege.org
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
