[plug] Trouble with LILO....

[David Buddrige]

Hi Bob,

Do you know if there's any way that I can get the Linux system to read the
win95 partition?  If I can do that, then I can back it up using tar or
some-such.... at present however the only way I know how to read the data is to
boot off an ms-dos floppy disk...

thanks for your help.. 8-)

Dave...

Bob Ogden wrote:

> I think you're going to have to re set your disk type to normal, backup
> w95, set the disk type to LBA again, format the drive and restore your w95
> data.  You can't change the disk type without affecting w95 as it changes
> the addressing and w95 (well DOS really) relies on the block address to
> see the boot loader :(.
>
> Sorry...
>
> In <36BC602B.E487D676 at q-net.net.au>, on 06/Feb/99
>    at 11:30 PM,(+0800 GMT)
> David Buddrige <buddrige at q-net.net.au> said:
>
> > 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
>
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