Re: LILO

["Ken M. Mevand" <geekabyte@yahoo.com>]

i created a /boot partition as the first partition of the disk (about 40M),
and it still doesn't work. is LILO screwed?  whenever i boot, the screen is
filled with "01". i can only boot using a floppy. anyone know how to fix
this?

-ken

----- Original Message -----
From: Barry Dexter A. Gonzaga <barryg@collandor.kssp.upd.edu.ph>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 3:05 AM
Subject: Re: LILO


> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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