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"LI" for LILO or loading from a second harddrive



I've installed potato on the second harddrive. Lilo won't boot from
the HD (hangs at "LI" prompt). I can boot from the boot floppy just
fine.

My lilo.conf and the disk layout are quoted below. I tried adding
"linear" and "compact" (interchangeably) to lilo.conf, as well as
changing line "boot=/dev/hdc" for "boot=/dev/hdc1", but the problem is
still the same.

FWIW, I'm using a third-party multybooter (BootMagic), but it picks
out Linux installation on the second drive just fine. Also, since LILO
does get started, I assume that the problem is with my LILO
configuration, rather than with the mutlibooter's.

I belive that during installation I chose to install lilo into MBR on
/dev/hdc.

The drive is an IBM's 13G, connected as an only drive on secondary IDE
controller. Root is a primary partition in the very beginning of the
drive, and is only 100M big.

I'm stuck not being able to use custom kernel. :^( Any input greately
appreciated!

,----[ "mount" output ]
| /dev/hdc1 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro)
| /dev/hdc5 on /tmp type ext2 (rw)
| /dev/hdc6 on /var type ext2 (rw)
| /dev/hdc4 on /usr type ext2 (rw)
| /dev/hda5 on /mnt/slink_local type ext2 (rw)
| /dev/hda4 on /mnt/slink_root type ext2 (rw)
| proc on /proc type proc (rw)
`----
,----[ lilo.conf ]
| boot=/dev/hdc
| root=/dev/hdc1
| install=/boot/boot.b
| map=/boot/map
| delay=200
| vga=normal
| 
| image=/vmlinuz
| 	  label=default
| 	  read-only
| 
| image = /zImage
|   label = linux
|   read-only
`----

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Arcady Genkin                                 http://www.thpoon.com


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