[TriLUG] grub and lilo problem

[William Villalba]

Hi David,

Thanks for your reply...That is the problem I am having, however, I do 
not think that the system is an "old one." This is precisely what I do 
not understand, since both motherboard and processor are, as far as I 
know, capable of reading large disks--the motherboard is an Intel 
D865GBF and the processor is also an Intel P-4.
A bit frustrating...but, thanks so much anyhow...

David Rasch wrote:

>I've had a problem booting off large hard disks in older machines.  I
>was unable to even load lilo off a 60GB drive (Same with grub) and had
>to install lilo on a smaller disk even though the root partition and
>kernel could all be on the larger disk.  It seems to be some problem
>with the older bios booting off the large disk.  NOt sure if this is
>your problem.
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>David
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>On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 02:58:10PM -0400, William Villalba <wllmvillalba at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>Dear all,
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>>I've been trying for the last 4 days to install linux on my  system , 
>>but I am doing something that is preventing grub or lilo to be installed 
>>in the mbr. This is the situation: I have two hard drives, a 160 gb and 
>>a 80 gb. I used to have the 80 gb for data and the 160 gb for the 
>>operating systems--windows xp, gentoo, and suse. I decided to swap the 
>>160 for data and the 80 for installing operating systems. I  did the 
>>usual:  installed windows then went ahead to install linux. Originally I 
>>planned to install SuSe 9.1--a network install, and after finishing, 
>>everything seemed to be okay, but grub did not work. I tried to fix grub 
>>by using the "rescue" option, invoking "grub", root (hd0,x), and setup 
>>(hd0), but didn't work. I tried then to install Mandrake, RedHat, 
>>Debian...with the same result. Of course, I checked the bios and changed 
>>some settings--from "Enhance" to "legacy", from "auto" to "user", and 
>>played around with different possibilities. No luck!
>>Does anyone know what could be the problem? I thought that this was a 
>>kernel 2.6 issue, but I guess not because I have tried installations 
>>with kernel 2.4, but does not work either.  My system  is a Pentium 4, 
>>with a Intel motherboard, a  80gb Maxtor drive and a Seagate 160 
>>drive--both ide. A while ago I had a similar problem and how I solved it 
>>was by installing Linux first, then Windows and later using a knoppix  
>>cd to restore grub. However, I am not too sure this is the ideal 
>>solution, not to mention that this one have my head spinning...and I 
>>can't solve it. Any help I will greatly appreciate it.
>>
>>william
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