thanks! i have set boot sequence to "D,A,SCSI" in BIOS, the problem persists: when booting, first i see "MBR", then a second later, "LI 01 01 01..." and stalls. --- "Jan C. Nordholz" <jckn@gmx.net> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 02:01:48PM -0800, j smith > wrote: > > > > i have Debian 3.0 and my hard drive is hdb, i have > > problem with lilo: it can't boot from hdb. does > lilo > > have to boot from hda? Thanks in advance! > > > Hi, > > it would help a lot if you'd be a little more > verbose. > Assuming you've adjusted your BIOS boot sequence > accordingly > (so that the Primary IDE slave drive (hdb) is tried > before > the Primary IDE master (hda)), and lilo's config > says > "boot=/dev/hdb", there should be no problem with > booting > itself, and you should at least see a few characters > of the > word "LILO" appearing. What happens then depends on > whether > the kernel images are in place etc. > > Tell us a bit more about your setup: What is > installed > (presumably some sort of Win on hda, and Debian on > hdb)? > Exactly _what_ happens when you try to boot? Does > LILO run > without errors (remember to re-run LILO each time > you change > its config or install/update a kernel)? Please > attach your > /etc/lilo.conf, so we can have a look... > > Jan > > -- > Jan C. Nordholz > <jckn At gmx net> > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo
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