RE: LI on bootup (Am I missing something?)

["Smith, Nathan A., Capt." <smithna Comanche plk af mil>]

Hi, 

I posted this question on Friday, it's now late Sunday and I haven't heard a
peep.  I was wondeirng if I am posting this incorrectly or to the wrong list
or something.  I have posted other questions, with similar results.  I
figure I must be doing something wrong -- Could someone clue me in?  Thanks

Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Smith, Nathan A., Capt. [SMTP:smithna Comanche plk af mil]
> Sent:	Friday, February 26, 1999 6:19 PM
> To:	redhat-list redhat com
> Subject:	LI on bootup
> 
> > Hi everyone, 
> > 
> > Hopefully I can give all the information necessary to have this question
> > answered.  Some background, I am building a 486 computer for a family
> > friend.  His previous harddrive was only 170 megs and insufficient for
> > what he is going to be doing with it.  So we got a 6.4 gig (most bang
> for
> > the buck).  I went through and did an install using my Redhat 5.0 cdrom.
> > I partitioned the drive as follows:
> > 
> > hda1 40megs with root partition
> > hda2  about 3 gigs with /usr partition
> > hda3  about 3 gigs with /home partition
> > hda4  rest of drive for swap
> > 
> > The install went fine.  However, when booting I got the infamous LI and
> > system freeze situation.  Now, I have read the Large Disk howto and the
> > LILO howto and based on them I have tried adding the following line:
> > 
> > hda=6664, 30, 63 and the linear options to the lilo.conf file.  This
> > hasn't helped.
> > 
> > The computer I am using is a 486DX2 66.  The bios does recongize the
> > harddirve correctly (as does LINUX during bootup).  This bios doesn't
> have
> > LBA (it has something for large blocks, but I hadn't seen it before and
> I
> > have it turned on anyways).
> > 
> > BTW:  the current partition setup I have is based off of several
> messages
> > I read (via a web search), that said that LILO needed to be on a
> partition
> > within the first 1023 cyclinders of the harddrive.  I have tried
> > repartitioning the harddrive in several different ways.
> > 
> > If there is anything else I am not including please let me know as I
> > really would like to get my friend his computer.  Thanks in advance
> > 
> > Nathan Alonzo Smith	
> > TSX-5 SpaceCraft Engineer
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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