Re: Sys will boot from floppy but not from HD
On Monday 19 February 2007 00:01, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I have an old problem that I now wish to fix since I have just upgraded
> my file server. I can boot the server from a floppy but when I try to
> boot directly from the Hard Drive all I get is 01 01 01 01 ...
>
> I have booted from the floppy and rerun lilo -v
> OUTPUT:
> Reading boot sector from /dev/hda1
> Merging with /boot/boot-menu-b ...
>
> I have checked and /dev/hda1 is bootable
>
> in lilo.conf
>
> boot = /dev/hda1
> root = /dev/hda1
Just checked my lilo.conf on another machine (not my 64-bit one, which is
using grub) and this has:
boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda3
(I've a small /boot partition and a swap partition in hda1 and hda2
respectively, so hda3 is the root partition).
I think you normally want lilo to install in the MBR, which would be /dev/hda
and not hda1. You only install lilo into an actual partition if you are
using it as a secondary bootstrap loader which gets called up by some other
bootstrap loader (such as Windows' NTLDR). If you're single-booting Debian
then you definitely want lilo installed in the MBR.
It's easy to fix; just boot from some other media, mount your usual drives
under some convenient mountpoint, chroot to there, run lilo and remember to
EXIT FROM THE CHROOT WITH CTRL+D before you reboot. (If you don't exit the
chroot, the changes you made could get lost.)
--
AJS
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