Debian Network Install Lilo

[Chris L.]

I can install debian off of a cd with no problems and everything works. But, everytime I try to install debian 3 (woody) from a network install, lilo can never be installed on the mbr. It always gives errors about some 1023 cylender.

The thing is, I have a new computer that I built and have installed many distros on it, so why will lilo not install? I have tried partitioning it several ways, usually with a /, /home, and swap partition. I even put a small 2mb partition at the beginning, and I still get the same error.

I think this is a bug in the woody install program because the previous version installs perfectly from the cd.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Chris Lynch

[r00t619]

make a 20MB partition at the beginning of the disk that is mounted as /boot and all your problems will go away.

[error27]

I don't think making the boot partition would help because Lilo doesn't care about that anymore.

I would just install from the cd and change my /etc/apt/sources.list to get the right version.

Then just do and "apt-get update" "apt-get upgrade"