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[Gilles Devillers <gildev AT gmail.com>]

Yeah it was a 2 GB hard drive, and I saw in the maintenance manual that they were 3 GB models for that computer. I just tried with a 1 GB SD card but same problem and fdisk tells me it has 167680 cylinders this time, although the BIOS tells me it has 1996 cylinders…

Now when running “lilo -v” here's what I get:

"Reading boot sector from current root.

Device 0x0300: Invalid partition table, 1st entry

3D address: 1/1/0 (63)

Linear address: 4/0/0 (3)”

I'm not sure where the problem is coming from…

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Gilles Devillers — GilDev

Le 18 mars 2018 à 22:20, Ian <info AT freedomnet.org.uk> a écrit :

The spec says that this laptop ships with a 2GB hard drive. Might be best if you restrict your
self to that. You could make a 2GB partition on your SD card. You could make four :)

Ian.

On 18 Mar 2018 at 21:57, Gilles Devillers wrote:

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

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