[plug] Trouble with LILO....

[David Buddrige]

Further to my last email message  - I've got a bit further down the road...
I went into the bios (as part of the install I'd swapped the hard-drives
around so as to put the CD on a different ide cable to the two
hard-drives... previously, I had one hard-drive on one ide cable, and teh
other cable sharing the cd and a hard-drive... in any case, this meant that
I had to go into bios...

So anyway, I've changed the bios so that both of my hard-drives are using
LBA mode rather than NORMAL... this has meant that I can now get LILO to
boot... however I still can't get it to load windows 95... I've got it
loading linux from the lilo boot prompt that comes up from booting off the
hard-drive, however, I still can't boot into windows... the other thing is
that I can't mount my win95 partition from linux for some reason - it says
it's an invalid ms-dos drive... but if I boot off a ms-dos boot floppy,
I can see the hard-drive contents just fine... 8-)

fdisk tells me that the partition type of the /dev/hda is 6 - which is vfat
>32M....

Still trying to figuure out how to boot my win95 partition... anyone able
to help?

thanks heaps all

David Buddrige... 8-)


David Buddrige wrote:

> 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