Re: Unable to boot from hdd with recent lilo/mbr packages!!!
On Monday 28 May 2001 15:50, Olaf Stetzer wrote:
> Since 5 weeks after updating some packages from unstable (including
> lilo and mbr) I am no longer able to boot my laptop from hdd!! :-(
I have CC'd this message to the MBR maintainer in case they are not
subscribed to this list.
> 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 .
OK. However I notice that you are putting the boot sector on /dev/hda2 which
suggests to me that the use of boot.b or boot-compat.b will not make any
differance. I believe that boot-compat.b only helps you if you have
boot=/dev/hda , although having never tested that code I can not be certain...
If you have boot=/dev/hda then I think it is likely to work. In your
situation I doubt that there is a reason to use the Debian-mbr that is
compelling enough for you to do otherwise.
BTW I would prefer if it you CC'd me on all Debian-lilo issues, and I think
it would be beneficial to CC manty on all Debian-mbr issues.
> 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
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