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LILO, 2 scsi disks, 2 OS config problem



I have been trying to install debian 2.0 for a couple of days and I cannot get LILO to work.

My setup is :
Intel CPU
SCSI disk 1 (sda) dedicated to Windows 95
SCSI disk 2 (sdb) dedicated to linux, debian 2.0, kernel 2.0.34 installed from  CDROM.
Root partition is /dev/sdb1.
Linux boots correctly either from the rescue disk on CDROM or from the boot floppy I made during installation. In that case, BIOS is configured to boot from CDROM (primary) or floppy (secondary)

My wish is :
getting the lilo prompt at boot and be able to select windows or linux. My previous installation (redhat 5.0) did just that. In that case, BIOS is configured to boot "from SCSI" (I do not have the choice of disk, I assume it is the first one, SCSI ID = 0)

The symptoms are:
I get the lilo prompt at boot , the boot process begins OK, but reboots at some point. I do not have time to read correctly the screen at that particular point, but it seems to me that it happens just before starting the INIT process, after a line like "VFS: mounted root read only" is displayed.

My lilo.conf is :
boot=/dev/sda
root=/dev/sdb1
install=/boot/bootb
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=100
append="mem 97M"
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
other=/dev/sda1
label=win

I would appreciate any help or pointers to useful doc or means of investigation.

Yours,

J-F Rit
jean-francois.rit@der.edf.fr


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