[plug] Trouble with LILO....

[Rob Hall]

I had a similar problem.

Make sure lilo boots from your Primary master disk - worked for me anyway.

Regards,


Rob Hall


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
> Of David Buddrige
> Sent: 06 February 1999 23:00
> To: plug at linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Trouble with LILO....
> 
> 
> 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
> 
>