[plug] lilo and multiboot problems

[Adam Ashley]

To get rid of the warning message, remove the line:

linear

and put

lba32

at the top of lilo.conf, then you wont have any trouble booting big drives
(if you using the RH7 lilo that is and I would assume the mandrake one).
Someone else already mentioned the fix to get it mandrake working I think.
But the reason your lilo menu is only giving you the first two options, is
that lilo will only write changes to your boot sector if lilo.conf is
completely correct, so as soon as it generated that error it exited and
didnt write to the boot sector, this is a 'good thing' makes it a lot hard
to trash the boot sector.

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ari Finander [mailto:spodosaurus at start.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 March 2001 2:54 AM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] lilo and multiboot problems
>
>
> I'm trying to get lilo to let me boot either my red hat 7.0 (hda2),
> mandrake 7.2 (hda6), or windows98se (hda1) operating systems from the
> red hat lilo screen.  So far, I've been completely unsuccessful, and
> from the errors reported with linuxconf when I try to apply the
> changes to lilo I'm worried that some file has grown too large with
> all my trials.  Here's what comes up after I press 'activate changes'
> and I display the error log:
>   Checking base configuration
>     Checking kernel's modules
>     Mounting local volumes
>     Checking files permissions
>     Checking lilo
>       Executing /sbin/lilo
>         *Warning: device 0x0306 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
>         >Added RedHat
>         >Added Win98SE*
>         *Fatal: open /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17-21mdk: No such file or
> directory
>         *return 1
>   Executing some Sysv init scripts
>
> Here's my lilo.conf file:
>
> boot = /dev/hda
> timeout = 50
> linear
> prompt
>   message = /boot/message
>   default = Win98SE
>   vga = normal
>   read-only
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
>   label = RedHat
>   root = /dev/hda2
> other = /dev/hda1
>   label = Win98SE
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17-21mdk
>    label = mandrake
>    root = /dev/hda6
>
> Can anyone help me here?  I've read through the howtos and mini
> howtos, but they're all concerned with multi boot systems that onle
> have one linux partition.  My lilo prompt comes up as if the last
> section for mandrake wasn't even there, and RedHat and Win98sE boot
> fine.
>
> TIA,
>
> Ari
>
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