Re: Unusual Lilo "LI" problem
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 17:03:04 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Marc Moody wrote:
>
> > I've recently install a new potato system that's been working well for a
> > couple of weeks. Yesterday I compiled a custom kernel
> > (2.2.14) (installed using make-kpkg), and now I can't boot my Linux
> > drive. I CAN boot using the rescue floppy, and everything works
> > fine. Normally the "LI" problem was easily fixed by rerunning lilo, but
> > that doesn't seem to be working. This type of setup worked for a year
> > and a half on my old system. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be
> > grateful.
> >
> > I've been dual booting Win95 and potato on a SCSI disc with BootMagic.
> > /dev/sda1 is my windows partition, /dev/sda2 is my Linux partition. I
> > do have a tiny partition for the boot manager. I've tried uninstalling
> > lilo with lilo -u and using it with and without the linear option in my
> > conf. I have an older IDE drive on /dev/hda1, but I don't see how that
> > would cause a problem.
> >
> the boot manager is probably your problem. i know a situation with the
> nt-bootmanager: it does not use the real boot sector to boot a partition,
> but a copy stored in a file. thus, if you recompile your kernel and
> re-run lilo, lilo will update the real boot sector, but the boot manager
> will not realize it and will still run the old code stored in the
> image-file. the old code of course has an invalid (old) map ...
>
> the solution (for nt - i don't know bootmagic):
>
> dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/c/bootsek.lin count=1
>
> where /c is the mount-point of a fat-partition, where the nt-bootloader
> resides. bootsek.lin is an arbitrary name choosen for the image file (you
> would have to use the one, that already exists).
>
> i hope, that this technique is also true for bootmagic.
> good luck!
Thanks for the help. I don't think this would work with BootMagic since
I can't seem to find any image files, just one config file for all of
the entires. I tried some trial and error, but it didn't work. It did
lead to a solution however. The problem seems to be my IDE drive on
hda1. I re-ran lilo after disconnecting the drive and everything works.
When I installed potato, it wasn't installed yet, so that's probably
why my original setup was ok. This brings up a new question. LILO
keeps setting hda1 as the first drive. Is there a way to get it to
think of my SCSI disc as the first drive and still have the IDE
connected? Thanks for all your help.
--
M
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