Re: LILO

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

YES!! managed to solve the problem by moving /boot to hda which is a windows
partition and creating a symlink.

thanks!

now... if my hda crash, so goes my hdd??

----- Original Message -----
From: Willy Lee <willy2@jps.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: LILO


> "Ken" == Ken M Mevand <geekabyte@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > 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
>
> I had the same symptom.  My problem was that the /boot partition was
> not on the master disk (hda), it was on hdb.  I believe it was my BIOS
> that couldn't handle booting from the second disk, LILO itself wasn't
> the problem.
>
> My solution was to put the /boot partition on hda and boot to it.
> Luckily I had some ext2 partitions on hda from a previous RedHat
> install, so I moved the contents of /boot to hda5.
> Everything worked nicely after that.
>
> If you really don't want to mess with shrinking your Windows
> partition, I was told (by David Wright) that it could still be done,
> using some symlink trickery.
>
> For a better explanation of how to fix the problem, look in the
> archives for David Wright's message to this list on 5 October 2000.
>
> hth,
> =wl
>
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