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Sylvain Robitaille wrote:

> SilliCone wrote:

>> Reading boot sector from /dev/fd0
>
> Notice that it's reading the old boot sector from /dev/fd0 ....

Yep. As i said, can only boot from floppy at the moment.

>> The lilo.conf
>> ...
>>
>> boot = /dev/fd0
>> #if i try to boot from floppy
>>
>> boot = /dev/hda
>> #boot from hd
>
> Do you have both of these in the file, or are you just showing what you
> have in each case? I suspect that if you have both, Lilo may be just

Just showing. Should have told that before..

> I hope I've helped ...

Any comment is appreciated.

thanX!

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Dr Balwinder Singh Dheeman wrote:

> On 10/13/04 22:21, SilliCone wrote:
>> System Specs :
>>
>> Dell Dimension XPS P133S (P1 133MHz)
>> 32MB RAM
>> hda -> WD Caviar 850MB
>> hdc -> IDE CD-ROM
>> BIOS -> A10
>> (Sidenote on the BIOS- at first that sucker didn't even boot from CD.
>> Original BIOS was Version A00, updated to A10 (most recent) to get (with
>> some other shit) ElTorrito support)
>
> For my DELL Inspiron 4150/P4(M)/2.4GHz/256MB the latest avaiable BIOS
> version at Dell's support site is A06 only; and you have installed A10.
> Is that version correct and, or applicable for your dated machine?

I got the pre-selection of availiable files by entering the service-tag,my
machine is listed in the systems list and the update-routine does a check
on the hardware. And, best of all, i got no new errors after updating but a
working cd-boot :-)

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SilliCone wrote:

>> Notice that it's reading the old boot sector from /dev/fd0 ....
> Yep. As i said, can only boot from floppy at the moment.

Can we see a "lilo -v 2" run with /dev/hda as the target, then?

Failing to get anything helpful from that, I think I'm going to have to
defer to those who have recomended you check BIOS settings and the
bootable flag on that disk ...

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Systems analyst Concordia University
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SilliCone wrote:

> But- Lilo doesn't seem to work, or the bios doesn't seem to work as has to
> be expecetd, or what the fuck ever.

Well, it seems as Big Bad Bob was on the right track.

*Standard "it wasn't my fault* lame excuses* :-)
The IDE cable _was_ _not_ marked as "Cable Select" or something like "HD1" &
"HD2" on the connectors, so i assumed that i could follow my usuall routine
and jumper that stuff as Master/Standalone as always. Since it got
recognized correctly by the bios as first drive on first port i tought it
would be o.k. and didn't look any more.
- -Wrong-

Jumpered as "Cable Select", and after the 325th reinstall of lilo i got a
running system now that boots from HD.

So, to feed something into Google in case someone runs into the same prob
then me:

"If a Hd jumpered as Master is plugged wrongly onto a ide-cable suitable for
cable-select it might still be recognized by the bios as first drive on the
aprobiate ide-port, you can access it like as if there were no problem, but
you can't boot from it. Lilo might give a error like "Li 99 99 99 99l""

Thanks to all that answered me!

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