Re: Can't boot Linux from hard drvie
> I'd strongly recommend you put LILO in the mbr of your hard drive. It seems
> to always work so much better for me that way. It doesn't hurt anything,
> because you can (as you may well know) boot windows ME from the LILO prompt.
> Just add the partition winME is on to /etc/lilo.conf so that it looks almost
> like your linux partition's config section, but you don't want it to mount
> read-only, and you don't have a /vmlinuz for windows ;). Maybe I'm stupid
> too, who knows. Haven't used linux actively for a long while.
>
> - Jordan
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Also possible to use a different MBR replacement to do the picking - then,
LILO installed as you described makes a lot more sense. There's a stack
of 'em listed at freshmeat if you go digging... GAG actually *looks* really
nice, but I haven't tried it yet.
Anyways unlike many apps, LILO's manual actually is excellemt and definitely
has examples of loading up an MSwin partition (search for 'dos'). If I were
given the same situation (dual ME + Debian) I'd use LILO, it's quiet and I'm
used to it.
Hmm, does anyone know if there's a helpful GUI for lilo.conf the way there's
a helpful GUI for LOADLIN.EXE?
* Heather Stern * star@ many places...
> > Not sure if this is a laptop problem or if I just don't understand how
> > to use LILO. I'm trying to get the laptop to boot to both WindowsME
> > and Debian using LILO and I've installed LILO in the boot block of the
> > linux partition rather that the MBR. Seems everytime I try to boot
> > Debian from the hard disk I get any number of wierd symptoms before the
> > kernel is able to execute and then the system shuts down. I'm able to
> > boot from the boot floppy created during installation though, and no
> > problem booting WindowsME.
> >
> >
> >
> > Here's an excerpt:
> >
> > LILO Loading Linux...........................
> > Uncompressing Linux...
> >
> > invalid compressed format (other)
> >
> > -- System Halted
> >
> >
> >
> > This is not totally consistent. Sometimes I get "crc error".
> > Sometimes I get "block move error 0x02". Sometimes I get "Out of
> > Memory"
> >
> > Also, when I do boot with the boot floppy I will get the following
> > after a bit:
> >
> > register_serial():autoconfig failed
> > register_serial() at 0x0af8, irg 11 failed
> >
> > Not quite as worried about this as I am worried the boot problem.
> > However, I'd love to hear any advice on either :)
> >
> > The laptop is a Netlux 6020 (a.k.a. MiNote 6020) built by Mitac
> >
> >
> >
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