[ale] RH6 +NT +Win98 +LILO = less-hair

[Glenn Stone]

On 13 Jul 1999, paul at dblegl.atl.ga.us wrote:

>A friend of mine brought me a system today with a problem I'll turn to the
>list to help resolve.  He has a nice PII-450 box, 3 IDE drives and an IDE
>CD-ROM.  All fairly recent equipment.  The BIOS supports large drives.
>
>The problem is, I could not seem to convince LILO to boot the nice Linux
>installation from other than a floppy drive.  If you wish to help, read on
>for the details.  Otherwise, accept my apology for YA long LILO question.
>
>Here's the layout:
>
>He's installed Win98 on IDE 0 (hda), master drive (8GB)
>He's installed NT 4  on IDE 0 (hdb), slave drive (2G partition on 6GB)
>The CD-ROM is supported IDE 1 (hdc), master
>RedHat 6's installed on IDE 1 (hdd), slave drive (2G partition on 10G)
>
>RedHat's install went fine throwing stuff on hdd1 and ran the LILO install
>successfully to /dev/hda.  Booting shows  LI (hang) or second stage fail.

Check your BIOS settings and ensure that at least HDA (pri master) is set to
LBA mode.  Seen this more times than I can count.  Beyond that, though...

-- Glenn