View Single Post

   
  #5 (permalink)  
Old 01-17-2008, 07:49 AM
Giulio Orsero
 
Posts: n/a
Default Re: Lilo won't install on new ide hardisk

Jack Owens <jack@cox.net> ha scritto:

>Recently, S.M.A.R.T said my /dev/hda needed to be replaced. This is the
>drive's MBR that lilo uses. I installed the new drive, but the boot
>floppy disk wouldn't work. I temporarily reinstalled the old "hda" drive

You should post lilo.conf and tell where it's located, output of running
lilo and from where you executed it (I assume you partitioned,
formatted, and filled hda?)

>hdc: host protected area => 1
>
>What does "host protected area => 1" mean. I looked in the KT4V bios for

Nothing important, this is just one of those messages developers like to
put to clobber boot messages, they like to see something theirs
everytime their box boots (ie, like "not 100% native mode: will probe
irqs later").

--
giulioo@pobox.com
Reply With Quote