[plug] lilo and multiboot problems

[Ari Finander]

The error about going over 1024 only appeared during my last three
attempts to get linuxconf to get my lilo.conf changes to work.  Why
wouldn't it have been there from the beginning?  I think that
something to do with my repeated attempts is causing the error to come
up, and I'm not sure what or what to do to fix it :-(

Ari

Original message from: "Adam Ashley" <adam_ashley at softhome.net>
>
>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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> __________________________________________________________________
>> Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au
>>
>>
>
>
>.
>


__________________________________________________________________
Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au