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[Gilles Devillers <gildev AT gmail.com>]

Hello,

I recently got my hands on an old HP OmniBook 5700 running Windows 95 stock. The hard drive needed to be replaced so I bought an IDE-to-SD adapter. I managed to install Windows 95 on an 2 GB card (8 GB wouldn't work). I then played a bit with Debian 2.2 (Potato), Debian 3.0 (Woody), KolibriOS and BL3 by only booting from floppies.

I'm quite new to BL (and LILO) and I wanted to install it on my blank 8 GB SD card. The installation process went flawlessly (formatting, writing filesystem then install-to-hd), I installed LILO with “lilo -v” and everything but I cannot boot from the hard drive (SD card), the computer just goes idle forever. I can however boot to the hard drive using BL's floppy 1, press CTRL when “LILO” shows up and type “hd root=/dev/hda1” as the instructions says.

Do you know why LILO won't launch at startup? Could it be because the SD card is too big? I saw it caused problems to Windows, and fdisk says “The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 15634. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) […]”. Any ideas on how I could fix my problem? Ideally I would want to have a multi-boot card with Debian, KolibriOS and BasicLinux but I don't know if I will be able to make it work…

Many thanks,

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Gilles Devillers — GilDev