Booting from an 640MB MO-Disk with LILO?

[reiner <stallus@regio-info.de>]

Hi all,

I need some help to manage booting from an 640MB MO-Disk (2048 bytes per
sector)

Here are the steps i have done :
>From my potato box installed on an IBM scsi-disk (sda)

fdisk -b 2048 /dev/sdb
(the option -b 2048 is not in the man-page, i found it on a japanese
Webserver)

Then i have make 3 linux partitions and 1 swap partition with the
corresponding id´s on it:
    sdb1 100MB for /
    sdb2 32MB for swap
    sdb3 400MB for /usr
    and on sdb4 the rest for /home (about 50MB)

I have the bootable Flag set to partition sdb1.

Then
mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/sdb1
mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/sdb3
mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/sdb4

Later i have decided to do a fresh potato install on it (only the
required minimum) and grab the latest
boot disk (2.2.4-2000-01-03)
I installed this in a dos directorie (hda) and started the installation
per loadlin (because i don´t trust floppy´s)
Everything works fine during the installation and the files are on the
MO.
I´have also made a boot disk for this new installation on the MO (tried
several floppys and the 4. floppy got it)
Now i have installed LILO in the MBR of the MO and get the following
messages:

ll_rw_block:device 08:00:only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024)
ll_rw_block:device 08:00:only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024)
ll_rw_block:device 08:00:only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024)
Added Linux*

what does this mean? In trouble with 2048 bytes per sector?

Here is my lilo.conf

disk=/dev/sda
 bios=0x80
disk=/dev/hda
 bios=0x81
boot=dev/sda
root=/dev/sda1
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
delay=20
image=/vmlinuz
    label=Linux
    read-only

The MO is now sda because i have changed the scan-order in the scsi-bios

Also i have changed the Motherboard-Bios to boot from scsi first (not
ide)

Now the smoke test:

I get the LILO-error message

L010101010101010.........

I inserted the boot-floppy and reboot
Now the System is up and running on the MO but i can`t boot directly
from MO. What´s wrong? I´ve looked in the LILO-User´s guide from Werner
Almesberger but nothing found that helps.

Here are my System configuration:

ASUS Motherboard P55T2P4 with K6-2 366MHz
Symbios SCSI-Controller Sym 8750 with 53C875-Chip and NV-RAM
IBM SCSI-Disk (My up-to-date Potato-Box;Kernel 2.2.13)
IBM IDE-Disk (DOS/Win System)
Fujitsu MO-Drive (With the System from the fresh Potato Install;Kernel
2.2.13)

It would be cool if i can boot from MO, because this wood be a good and
reliable (No floppy needed) rescue or experimantal System


Thanks in advance for any help


R.Stallknecht