Bug#84639: LILO on swap partition?
Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org> writes:
> I got a report forwarded from a german user of the LinuxLand edition
> of Debian r2. He writes that he was unable to get Debian to boot on
> his machine. It turned out that the boot loader was installed on
> the swap partition /dev/hda1 instead of the root partition on /dev/hda2.
>
> I took a quick look at the code and it seemed to me that it is really
> using the root partition for the boot loader. I could be wrong so
> here is the report before I forget about it.
>
> In case this is not a problem please feel free to close the report again,
> just wanted to have it on record.
Is the user using any non-linux partitions (esp solaris or *bsd
slices) on his disk?
I have heard of this happening for another user.
I would really like to see the results of fdisk -l however, and what
the kernel is reporting during the boot sequence.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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