Re: Fixed : "10101010" problem

Ah, yes! The old 512MB gotcha. I have long been in the habit of
partitioning any bootable drive as follows:

 1 128MB bootable ext3 /boot
 2 384MB ext3 /
 3 (whatever) ext3 /home
 4 extended
 (whatever for the rest)

I like to keep /boot, /, and /home in primary partitions. I have found
that some distributions do not like to boot from anything other than
ext2 or ext3. This may be a function of the boot loader. I have used
other file systems (reiserfs, xfs, ???) and I no longer use ext2. So, I
never have a problem with the 512MB gotcha regardless of the bios.

fgd.

On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 07:44:27AM +0000, W.D.McKinney wrote:
>
> Grub error 18 = LBA problem in the BIOS
> So I fixed it with FAT16 /boot of 512MB.
>
> Nice to have it up and running now.
>
> Thanks,
> Dee
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Say I have a server with a IDE HD and it had FreeBSD 4.X on it and I put Debian on it today. But after I wiped with MS DOS and then set up Debian on it, it still doesn't boot with Lilo or Grub ?
>
> All I get is the "10101010101010" across the screen ?
>
> Tried several times today to get up up booting right ? Right now I have Sarge on it with Lilo. Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks,
> Dee
>
>
>
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