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#1 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 07:44 AM

Grub or Lilo it don't matter they don't start when I reboot after
installation.

When I reboot with Grub is stands still: GRUB_ (underscore blinking)
and don't start (have to reboot and reboot)

The same with Lilo It stands still: L_ (underscore blinking)

I tryed to install DOS then it WILL start from HD

when I install LINUX DEBIAN after DOS (with DOS on HD to)

I have the same problem again with GRUB or LILO

I have to start from HD when want to Use Sarge, and iptables

It is a Pentium 166 pc

#2 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 07:44 AM

"justme" <gonzyyyy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3d24a191170c20105s44efec8me0b10slc@4ax.com...
> Grub or Lilo it don't matter they don't start when I reboot after
> installation.
>
> When I reboot with Grub is stands still: GRUB_ (underscore blinking)
> and don't start (have to reboot and reboot)
>
> The same with Lilo It stands still: L_ (underscore blinking)
>
>
> I tryed to install DOS then it WILL start from HD
>
> when I install LINUX DEBIAN after DOS (with DOS on HD to)
>
> I have the same problem again with GRUB or LILO
>
>
>
> I have to start from HD when want to Use Sarge, and iptables
>
> It is a Pentium 166 pc

Pentium 166? That's... fairly behiind the times. How much RAM do you have,
and how did you install it in the first place?

#3 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 07:44 AM

On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 17:17:55 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
> Pentium 166? That's... fairly behiind the times.

Is that old of a bios need the /boot partition under the 1024
cylinder or will putting lba32 in the lilo.conf help with that problem?

#4 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 07:44 AM

On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 22:06:28 +0200, justme
<gonzyyyy@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Grub or Lilo it don't matter they don't start when I reboot after
> installation.
>
> When I reboot with Grub is stands still: GRUB_ (underscore blinking)
> and don't start (have to reboot and reboot)
>
> The same with Lilo It stands still: L_ (underscore blinking)
>
>
> I tryed to install DOS then it WILL start from HD
>
> when I install LINUX DEBIAN after DOS (with DOS on HD to)
>
> I have the same problem again with GRUB or LILO
>
>
>
> I have to start from HD when want to Use Sarge, and iptables
>
> It is a Pentium 166 pc
>
Is it an IDE or SCSI hard drive?
Can you post the results of "fdisk -l"? Your machine might have an old
BIOS where the boot partition must be located in the first 8 gigabytes
or even the first 540 megabytes of the hard drive.

--
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't help
the rabbit.
-- R.E. Shay

#5 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 07:44 AM

>Is it an IDE or SCSI hard drive?
>Can you post the results of "fdisk -l"? Your machine might have an old
>BIOS where the boot partition must be located in the first 8 gigabytes
>or even the first 540 megabytes of the hard drive.

is this fdisk of linux? (i can not use it becouse I cannot boot the
linux debian)

when using "fdisk -l" with the fdisk of Dos it says: "parameter
format not correct"

But if it is what you said:

"boot partition must be located in the first 540 megabytes of the
hard drive"

Can that be the problem of the LILO or GRUB problem?

and what Must I do to fix this?

#6 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 07:44 AM

On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 17:17:55 -0400, "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@comcast.net>
wrote:

>
>"justme" <gonzyyyy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:3d24a191170c20105s44efec8me0b10slc@4ax.com.. .
>> Grub or Lilo it don't matter they don't start when I reboot after
>> installation.
>>
>> When I reboot with Grub is stands still: GRUB_ (underscore blinking)
>> and don't start (have to reboot and reboot)
>>
>> The same with Lilo It stands still: L_ (underscore blinking)
>>
>>
>> I tryed to install DOS then it WILL start from HD
>>
>> when I install LINUX DEBIAN after DOS (with DOS on HD to)
>>
>> I have the same problem again with GRUB or LILO
>>
>>
>>
>> I have to start from HD when want to Use Sarge, and iptables
>>
>> It is a Pentium 166 pc
>
>Pentium 166? That's... fairly behiind the times.

The issue is whether the PC has the EDD bios extensions needed to support
"lba32" (with LILO). Without the EDD bios, "lba32" cannot be supported.

In this case, there must be a /boot partition located below the 1024 cylinder
limit. The LILO standalone diagnostic disk #1 may be used to check for EDD
bios support:

http://lilo.go.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo/boot

--John

How much RAM do you have,
>and how did you install it in the first place?
>

#7 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 07:44 AM

"Bit Twister" <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message
news:slrnda4735.oai.BitTwister@wb.home.invalid...
> On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 17:17:55 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>
>> Pentium 166? That's... fairly behiind the times.
>
> Is that old of a bios need the /boot partition under the 1024
> cylinder or will putting lba32 in the lilo.conf help with that problem?

That only mattered if your / partition (the one with /boot on it) went past
cylinder 1023 (namely, if it wasn't the first partition of a drive of more
than 8 Gigabytes or so).

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