Re: lilo problem
I did what you suggest below, and when I ran lilo, I got the following
message:
Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk
Added Linux *
Added OldLinux
And on boot, it again froze at
LI
Thanks again... Any other suggestions?
Steven
> See marks below.
>
> steven@planetfall.com writes:
>
> > Howdy Folks!
> >
> > I'm having a small problem configuring lilo and I'm hoping someone can
> > help.
> >
> > I have a Pentium 133 running slink with kernel 2.0.35.
> > I have a SCSI bootdisk and I want to make my IDE drive my root drive.
> >
> > ie.. boot=/dev/sda3
> > root=/dev/hda2
> >
> > I wish to boot the SCSI drive because it contains a windoze partition I
> > need to boot (sometimes). I've recently aquired a 6 gig IDE drive and
> > I've copied the linux over to it. I'd like to continue booting the SCSI
> > drive, but have something pointing to my IDE drive for Linux. At this
> > point I can boot either partition using loadlin. If I boot the SCSI drive
> > as root, I can use lilo to fix the MBR to boot linux off that drive.
> > This is not desirable because the partition is too small. However, if I
> > boot the IDE drive as root and attempt to use lilo I get the error message
> > listed below.
> >
> > here is my lilo.conf file:
> > boot=/dev/sda3
> ^^^^^^^^^ /dev/sda
> > root=/dev/hda2
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > append="mem=80M"
> > map=/boot/map
> > vga=normal
> > delay=20
> > image=/bzImage.2.0.35
> > lable=Linux
> > read-only
> > image=/vmlinuz
> > lable=OldLinux
> > read-only
> >
> > when I run lilo, I get the following error:
> >
> > Warning: /dev/sda3 is not on the first disk
> > scsi0: Adopting Geometry 128/32 from the Partition Table
> > Added Linux *
> > Added OldLinux
> >
> > Then if I'm silly enough to attempt the boot the system it freezes after
> > LI.
> >
> > Does anyone have suggestions as to what I can do to fix this problem? As I
> > said, right now I'm booting off the debian CD using loadlin and an older
> > kernel. I would like to automate the process and use my kernel.
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
> > Steven
> >
> > ps. I'm not sure of what other information you may need. So if You need
> > something else to solve this problem, let me know.
>
>
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