Re: LILO

["Barry Dexter A. Gonzaga" <barryg@collandor.kssp.upd.edu.ph>]

me tinks you have to create a small partition < 20M and mount it "/boot"
on ur 2nd harddrive, or u could use grub @ gnu.org/grub

lilo cant boot from partitions greater that 1024th cylinder.

hte_pagan
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 06:34:18PM +0800, Ken M. Mevand wrote:
> hi,
>     just installed "slink". everything is ok, except that LILO is screwed. i
> installed LILO in the MBR of hda1. when i reboot the computer, i can't see
> the letters "LILO" because the entire screen is filled with strings of "01".
> and it just keeps showing "01". so i can boot to windows or linux.
> 
> here is my harddisk setup:
> /dev/hda1 - Windows 98 4Gb (default)
> /dev/hdb  - CD-ROM
> /dev/hdd1 - Linux "/" 1.5Gb
> /dev/hdd2 - Linux "/usr" 3Gb
> /dev/hdd3 - Linux "/var" 3Gb
> /dev/hdd4 - Linux Swap 32Mb
> 
> i managed to boot to linux using a boot disk, and reconfigue lilo.conf.
> however, when i run LILO from /sbin, here is the message :
>      Warning : BIOS Drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> 
> here is my lilo.conf :
> 
> boot=/dev/hda
> vga=normal
> timeout=300
> message=/boot/message
> prompt
> 
> other=/dev/hda1
> label="Windows"
> table=/dev/hda
> 
> image=/vmlinuz
> label="Linux"
> readonly
> root=/dev/hdd1
> 
> 
> thanks
> -ken
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null