Re: LILO

[Nick Webb <spam@platy3.org>]

You could put "lba32" in /etc/lilo.conf, that worked for me running a
drive on /dev/hde . . . this is my first hard drive, but un an ATA66
controller.

On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Ken M. Mevand wrote:

> 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
> >
> > --
> > Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer
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> > SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!"
> >
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Nick Webb
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