Re: LILO only says LI 01 01 01 01...

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On 9 Nov 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote:

> I tried switching from a IDE to a SCSI disk.  I copied everything
> (except proc) to the new disk using tar, edited the new fstab and
> lilo.conf, and typed 'lilo -r /mnt'.  Here's what lilo said:

it sounds like you forgot to reconfigure /etc/lilo.conf to write the
boot record to your scsi disk instead of the ide disk.

try:

    - power down and remove the IDE drive

    - boot with the rescue floppy, at the LDLINUX prompt, type:

            rescue root=/dev/sda1 emergency

if /dev/sda1 is not your root partition then modify the above line
accordingly.

    - login with root password when prompted

    - remount the root fs read-write with "mount -n -o rw,remount /"

    - edit /etc/lilo.conf
      change the boot= and root= lines at the top of the file to look like:

            boot=/dev/sda1
            root=/dev/sda1

once again, adjust the device names to suit your system.

    - run "lilo -t" to test the lilo config

    - if no errors, then run "lilo" to write the boot record to /dev/sda1

    - run "sync"

    - run "mount -n -o ro,remount /"

    - reboot


if this still fails, try the above again but use "boot=/dev/sda" instead of
"/dev/sda1".  this will write it to the master boot record of the scsi disk,
overwriting the boot record put there by the MBR program.

craig


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