[plug] Trouble with LILO....

[David Buddrige]

Hi all.... *sigh* a bit of a problem at the moment - I've just installed
a system with two hard-drives with Redhat 5.2... unfortunately, I can't
get LILO to work off the hard-drive...this is a bit of a problem as I've
got my win95 partition on one of the hard-drives with all of my work
thereon... 8-(

I can get into linux ok though by booting off a rescue disk....

What I've got is two hard-drives - one si an 850mb set up as the Primary
Master.  The other one - a  1.2GB harddrive is set as the primary slave.

The 850 mb hard-drive contains 1 partition configured for win95...

The 1.2GB Hard-drive contains 2 partitions - the first being the linux
swap partition, the second being the root partition for linux.

The 850mb hard-drive appears as /hda

The 1.2gb hard-drive appears as /hdb

When I run LILO, it seems to install ok, but when it tries to boot, it
comes up with just "LI" and hangs....

I looked up some technical doco, and it said this:

LI   The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage
       boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be
       caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b
       without running the map installer.

My entire lilo.conf is listed here:

boot = /dev/hda
timeout = 50
prompt
  vga = 1
  read-only
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b

other = /dev/hda1
  label = dos
  table=/dev/hda

image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
  label = linux
  root = /dev/hdb2


However I've been messing around wtih this half the night, and I'm a bit
stumped... can someone help me out?

Thanks heaps.... 8-)

David Buddrige