🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi dagger

I've seen this before ... but ...memory parity error :))

Could be damaged boot record - I assume you don't have any DOS/FAT
partitions from your description - get Linux up and redo your LILO
installation with linuxconf (at the command line)

If that fails, it could be that you don't have an active partition, or maybe
you only have an extended partition without any primary partition which
would probably be an invalid configuration. With fdisk, you should be able
to activate your partition, but if you only have an extended partition, you
might have to reinstall from scratch using a primary partition instead.

One other possibility is that your hard disk has got more than 1023
cylinders even though its not that big - some early drives only have two
heads and over 1023 cyls - check in your C-MOS settings - if the drive is
using LBA, you may have that problem. (not that likely though)

Hope this helps
Dave
dagger wrote in message ...
>I am currently installing Redhat 5.2 on a 486DX2/33, everything has
>installed fine - but when it tries to boot off the hardrive it hangs at
>where the LILO: prompt should be at LI
>
>If I boot off the install floppy and enter vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1
>read-only at the boot: prompt, it boots off the hardrive fine.
>
>Any reccomendations on how to fix this? It's only a 520mb drive (485
>extended partition, and 32mb swap) so I doubt it suffers from the
>too-many-cylenders problem.
>
>The other thing is, this machine only has 10mb of physical RAM - but this
>shouldn't be a problem?
>
>--
>dagger
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