on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:50:53PM +0200, Olaf Stetzer (ostetzer@mail.uni-mainz.de) wrote: > Hello *, > > Since 5 weeks after updating some packages from unstable (including > lilo and mbr) I am no longer able to boot my laptop from hdd!! :-( > After some investigations I found that lilo may be incompatible with > SystemSonft Bioses and so I tried to use boot-compat.b instead of > boot.b . > > I tried a lot of different settings in lilo.conf but without sucess.... > Just some additional infos that might help: > The problem startet with lilo hanging after LIL- > I then reran a newer version of lilo and then even this message > disappeared, now only the bios message which asks for a system > disk to be inserted is displayed. I even tried to run install-mbr > with different options still without success!!! > > Heres is my lilo.conf and partition-table: > > boot=/dev/hda2 > root=/dev/hda4 > # This file was created automatically by liloconfig > # Automatic creation, will do it every time > # run dpkg-reconfigure lilo if you want to change the way this operates > install=/boot/boot-compat.b > delay=20 > map=/boot/map > vga=normal > lba32 > read-only > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=Linux > other=/boot/vmlinuz.old > label=OLD-Linux > > > > Disk Drive: /dev/hda > Size: 6007357440 bytes > Heads: 240 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 776 > > Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size(MB) > ------------------------------------------------------ > Unusable 7.75 > hda1 Primary OS/2 hidden C: drive 286.44 > hda2 Boot Primary Linux ext2 7.75 > hda3 Primary Linux swap 100.64 > hda4 Primary Linux ext2 5604.81 Not sure if this matters or not. I've found that marking /dev/hda as bootable and installing lilo on this directly seems to work where booting a marked-bootable partition doesn't. There's also GRUB. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Disclaimer: http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
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