RE: "LI" for LILO or loading from a second harddrive
Lilo must be installed in the MBR of /dev/hda. That is where your BIOS
looks to boot your system. change your boot" line to look like:
boot=/dev/hda
This will install LILO in the MBR of /dev/hda.
LILO can *boot* things pretty much anywhere in your system
(like /dev/hdc1) but it must be located where the BIOS looks
(generally the boot sector of your first floopy drive, or the MBR of
your first Hard disk.
Bryan
On 08-Jan-2000 Arcady Genkin wrote:
> 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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