Re: Help: problem with booting from HD

[rjs@lloke.dna.fi (Riku Saikkonen)]

In article <[🔎] Pine.SUN.3.91.970109030010.4936B-100000@eris.cs.umb.edu> you wrote:
>Thank you for the suggestion.  this is what I got so far.  I repartitioned
>the disk with a 500mb primary partition for DOS (06) (some of my pc 
>friends insisted I put DOS as the first one :-), forllowed with 
>two 300mb primary linux partitions, and a 64mb logical linux swap, and
...
>image=/vmlinuz
>/vmlinuz points at /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.27, which is there.

Where is /boot? The kernel image (and, I think, the LILO map file,
/boot/map) usually needs to be in the first 504 Mb for the BIOS to be able
to find it. Try moving your kernel image and /boot/map to a directory on
your DOS partition and rerunning LILO.

For example (assuming /dos is your mounted DOS partition):
  mkdir /dos/boot.lnx
  cp /vmlinuz /dos/boot.lnx/vmlinuz
  mv /vmlinuz /vmlinuz.backup
  ln -s /dos/boot.lnx/vmlinuz /vmlinuz
  cp /boot/map /dos/boot.lnx/map
  mv /boot/map /boot/map.backup
  ln -s /dos/boot.lnx/map /boot/map
  lilo

(I hope LILO didn't need anything else than the kernel image and /boot/map
in the first 504 Mb. Someone reply to this and tell us? :))

>Also I was trying to use dselect to do the install from Yggdrasil Winter 97
>CD collection's Debian 1.1 i386 distribution.  dselect asked me to "enter 
>the block device name"  what I suppose to enter.

If it asked you that after you chose "cdrom" as the installation method, I
think it's asking for the device name of the CD-ROM drive (/dev/sonycd or
whatever it is)...

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