Most probable reason seem for me too, as someone (oops, must have deleted it) said, the format: "DOS" formatting wouldn't garrantee that it's FAT16, and if it's vfat, and thus 32 bit (or Woin$-"DOS), ordinary DOS would not boot. (I had that case too.)
One has to watch out for which FDISK has been used. I found it reliable to first format with the _DR_-DOS FDISK and then install LILO. Steven's original description matched well the case: > Linux is able to fdisk the HD and mke2fs and install > itself to the HD. It can even boot a kernel from > floppy and run the HD filesystem. > > On the other hand, DOS is unable to fdisk the HD, > nor can it format the HD (after Linux has partitioned > it). Puzzling though is the very last part then, that the (real) DOS FDISK wouldn't be able to format (all anew) that HD at all. It should (at the price of having the preceding LILO /mbr install gone, and everything else with it.) Something physically wrong with that HD ever so ? And in any case, if there's a BIOS with choiced, the HD type should be set to "Normal", i.e. C/H/S (and definitely not LBA.) // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2003-01-19 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
