Re: LILO Dual-boot blues
Kevin,
Thanks for your response. Yes, I have rerun LILO several times. I
made a boot floppy, but the system doesn't even try to boot from the
floppy, going to the CD-ROM first, and Gateway's BIOS Setup doesn't even
have a way to tell it "Floppy first."
Charlie
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 16:56, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 17:26, Charles Wilkins wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am installing a dual-boot Linux/Win2K machine for a graduate student
> > at the University I work at and I am having a major problem with LILO.
> > The machine is a Gateway2000 E-4200. I have woody installed on
> > /dev/hdb with /dev/hdb2 as the root of the filesystemand /dev/hdb1 as
> > the /boot partition. Windows 2000 is installed on /dev/hda1. I have
> > the LILO bootstrapper installed in the MBR of /dev/hda. The
> > /etc/lilo.conf is unchanged from what debconf set up during installation.
> >
> > What happens when I try to boot the system is this ... nothing at all.
> > The POST runs the screen blanks and the cursor sits flashing in the
> > upper left-hand corner of the screen. I have used dd to copy the MBR of
> > /dev/hda to a file, looked at it with ghex, and it appears to be a valid
> > LILO bootstrap program.
> >
> > My question is this ... does anyone have any experience with
> > dual-booting on the Gateway E-4200? Does anyone know if the ROM-BIOS on
> > that machine supports booting off of anything but BIOS Device 0x80
> > (Primary Master IDE device)? I have pored over the Dual-Boot-HOWTOs and
> > even compared /etc/lilo.conf to the /etc/lilo.conf on my sarge box at
> > home (dual-boot Debian testing/Win95), all to no avail. The system
> > boots up just fine using my Debian CD1 with "rescue root=/dev/hdb2"
> > typed in at the "boot:" prompt, so it doesn't appear to be
> > filesystem-related. It just appears that the system is refusing to run
> > the bootstrapper for LILO.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > ninewands
> Have you tried running lilo again?
> Have you tried using mkbook to create a boot disk.?
> --
> Kevin Mark <kmark@pipeline.com>
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