Re: New drive--->lilo warning
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 tko@westgac3.dragon.com wrote:
> Mark Phillips writes:
> [snip]
> > I tried booting anyway but it failed, complaining that it wasn't a system
> > disk. However my Dad (whose disk it was before giving it to me) swears it
> > was bootable.
> >
> > So what's wrong? On my father's computer the disk was disk C: where as
> > now it is /dev/hdc (that is, disk E: in dos-speak). Could this change
> > affect anything?
>
> Why have two "DOS" bootable drives? In my experience, "DOS" only likes to see
> one main bootable drive.
This is only a temporary measure. I want to check that everything is okay
with the disk, and then I plan to turn it into an ext2 partition. I
suppose I could just go ahead and hope the disk is fine, but it would be
nice to be able to boot from it first.
> Anyhow, back to LILO, Another gentleman on this list
> had a similar LILO problem. He found out that the additional boot partition
> was corrupted and as a consequence, LILO would not install properly. Any
> chance that you might have a corrupted drive?
If it is corrupted, I don't know how. It was working on my father's
computer. He removed it, and I put it in my machine. I can mount the dos
partition fine and look at the data, so if there is any corruption, it
would have to be in the boot sector -- and I can't see how this would have
happened.
> Also, is the bootable flag set for all participants in your LILO
> configuration file?
This is the setup of my three drives (according to cfdisk):
/dev/hda1 Boot Primary Linux 814.08
/dev/hdb1 Primary DOS FAT16 [ ] 100.23
/dev/hdb2 Primary Linux 177.25
/dev/hdb3 Primary Linux Swap 48.02
/dev/hdc1 Boot Primary DOS FAT16 [NO NAME ] 504.00
Pri/Log Free Space 11.82
actually, I tell a little lie --- the above is how my system _was_. After
your question above, I tried unsetting the bootable flag on /dev/hdc1 to
see what difference that makes (especially as my other dos partition
doesn't have the bootable flag set and it works). Unfortunately it made
no difference. Which boot flags should be set?
Thanks,
Mark.
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