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It's 18 Jun 97  05:19,
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discussion of Loading from hd problem

 ha> I have linux and Win95 on my machine.  Both work great, except I have
 ha> a problem loading using the Linux kernel on the hd.

 ha> I have LILO install in my MBR and it comes up fine and will load Win95
 ha> without a problem, but went I type in 'linux'(as I name my linux
 ha> drive) it comes up as -

 ha> LILO boot: linux
 ha> Loading linux

 ha> The hard drive light comes on and it just spins the hard drive and
 ha> does nothing.

 ha> Linux boots fine from a floppy.
 ha> Any ideas or suggestions?

How many cylinders does your HDD have?  (after any LBA translation).
One easy way to determine this is to run fdisk (from Linux) and see how
many cylinders it reports.  If it's less than 1024, then your problem is
most likely LILO thinks the kernel image is somewhere is isn't.  Make
sure /etc/lilo.conf points to the correct kernel image, and rerun
/sbin/lilo.

If you have > 1024 cylinders, and your boot partition goes past the 1024
mark, then LILO may not be able to see the kernel.  You'll have to
either keep using the floppy, or move the kernel and other boot files to
the Win 95 partition (if it's VFAT and not FAT32).

If none of the above, you may have some compatibility problem between
your kernel and the system.   Try copying the kernel image from the
floppy to the HDD and re-run /sbin/lilo. :-)

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