Re: Quantum Bigfoot

[aderhaag wolfenet com]

> I need some help with this new disk drive (Quantum Bigfoot) I've bought.
> 
> It will partition and load, but I cannot get it to LILO, and I cannot get
> RH5.1 to create a boot floppy either, so I haven't been able to see if
> Loadlin will work.
> 
> I've tried setting the BIOS as LBA, NORMAL, LARGE, tried passing the
> physical drive parameters during boot, and tried using linear as a lilo
> parameter, but nothing seems to work.
> 
> Has anyone had any success with this drive, or got some ideas on what to do
> next........

  You didn't mention how your drive is partitioned..  I'm assuming the
  problem is that LILO can't find the kernel at boot..  and you have
  both Windoz and Linux partitions..

  You might try putting the kernel within the first 1 Meg space on
  /dev/hda1 and point lilo at where to find the kernel.  The kernel
  contains a pointer for the root drive (compiled as ROOT_DEV) and
  where to put the boot stuff (INSTALL_PATH).  Beware of optimizations
  that might move any of the files in the /boot directory, however.
  In fact I built a subdirectory as C:/boot and created a symlink to
  it in my Linux partition and used it while the Windoz drive was
  mounted while running /sbin/lilo.

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