Re: I am in need of assistance

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Okay here's what I've done.  I completely removed every partition on the
> new hard drive.  I re-partitioned the hard drive with
> 
> Partition       boot    start   end     File System
> /dev/hda1               1       3       Linux Native /boot
> /dev/hda2               4       169     Linux Native /
> /dev/hda3               170     180     Linux Swap
> /dev/hda4               186     1232    Win95 FAT32

You could have put root & /boot on the same partition since
it's under the 1023 limit.

> When it sets up the boot loader, it didn't say it had a problem the second
> time I did it, but the first time after re-partitioning the drive, it gave
> me an error.  Anyway after restarting it couldn't find the boot loader.  I
> booted using the boot disk and I ran lilo and it said added linux and
> added win98.  After reseting nothing happened again.  I again booted with
> the disk and ran lilo -v and it said it wrote the boot sector, but again
> it didn't.  So is there any suggestions?  Also for Bruce, we just got a
> notice that we are going to get 12 to 20 inches of snow tonight.

What's it do when you try to boot?

Please you send your lilo.conf file, and any error messages.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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