Hi
You also did the jumper thingy provided by acid_kewpie ?
Otherwise it's probably a bios /disk geometry case.
First go into your bios see what the autodetecting harddisk
gives you, make note of sector,head cyls.
Check the label on your disk to see if it's written there also.
See if you can boot using a sinlge floppy, like tomsrtbt for
instance.
www.toms.net
If you can,then use the fdisk on that and print the partition table and check sector,head,cyls. But i guess you wont
(if it boots;toms uses an older kernel so it's worth trying)
try bypassing the hardrive parameters at boot time, try this
on tomsrtbt first, to get there; right after Lilo hit esc and then
tab
zImage shows up
type after boot; zImage hda=cylinders,heads,sectors
(mine for an old 3,2 Gb hda=782,128,63)
enter and see if it boots, if it does you can do the same
when installing the other distro's. And put that stuff
after append=" " in your lilo.conf (rerun lilo when done)
Another nasty trick just to confirm it's really a disk thing
enter hda=noprobe at boot prompt, it skips checking the
disk entirely, but it's no good for repairing or solving this case. (i use it cause i boot from a promise controller so i
dont have hda or hdb, it saves boottime)
Some other things; in bios try switching of autodetect
for drive and use; user and the above cyl head sector.
at bootime it's also possible to bypass faulty chipsets
for your ide check;
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.html
it is full of parameters, might give you an idea
Good luck