[ale] Newbie install question

[smn]

I've had Lilo hang on me like what's described.  All my drives are IDE
and I've zeroed the drives many times to fix LILO and rebuild.

Zeroing the drives is a low level format and it works very well.

IBM should have a similar utility.  Look here:
http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/hddtech.htm


"Eric Z. Ayers" wrote:
> 
> I don't think you can low-level format most IDE drives. If this is
> some big mo IDE drive, maybe you just need to add 'linear' to the
> /etc/lilo.conf and re-run lilo.
> 
> -Eric.
> 
> >>On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, you wrote:
 > >>> I have installed RH 6.1 about three times on a machine now and
everytime I
 > >>> get to the bootloader screen I get a failure whether I pick the
master
 > boot
 > >>> record or the first partition. I can get by the failure but then
LILO will
 > >>> not start (the boot hangs). The only way I can boot is with a
boot disk.
 > >>> That's not terrible but its a pain.
 > >>> Is this a common problem or is there a way to install LILO after
the RH
 > 6.1
 > >>> install is finished. I cannot find this problem in the HOWTOs,
but if
 > >>> anyone knows where to read about it, please let me know.
 > >>> 
 > >>> Thx in advance,
 > >>> Tom
 > >>>
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