[plug] Trouble with LILO....

[Rob Hall]

Windows will only boot from the primary master.

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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 23:31
> To: plug at linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Trouble with LILO....
>
>
> 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
>