Re: Lilo problems after a debian installation...
Hall,
thanks lot for your help.
finally I can boot from Lilo to my two OSs. I'd must to change the hard
disks, win on the primary IDE and Linux on the secondary IDE, then I
modify my references to hds on fstab and lilo, rerun lilo and ready!
Now I can play with both systems...
Hall Stevenson wrote:
> Unless I'm missing something plainly obvious, it looks okay and correct
> to me. You should have copied the list too though.
>
> One thing to try: comment out the lba32 line. Re-run /sbin/lilo and try
> again. I seem to recall having problems when I had that same line in my
> config file.
>
> Good luck
> Hall
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rogelio E. Castillo Haro,,," <rcastillo@glo.org.mx>
> To: "Hall Stevenson" <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 1:49 PM
> Subject: Re: Lilo problems after a debian installation...
>
> > I have not the PC on network, but I think that the matter lines are:
> > lba32
> > boot = /dev/hda
> > root = /dev/hda3
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > map = /boot/map
> >
> > default=Linux
> > image= /vmlinuz
> > label=Linux
> > read-only
> >
> > other=/dev/hdc1
> > label=win
> >
> > fdisk reports that windows is in hdc1 partition
> > with th above configuration when I select win, it appears:
> > Loading win
> > L?
> >
> > If I change the line other with:
> > other= /dev/hdc
> > it appears:
> > Loading win
> > Operating System not found.
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Hall Stevenson wrote:
> >
> > >> Primary master (hda) with Debian, just installed las weekend
> > >> Secondary master (hdc) with Win98 already installed and
> > >
> > > working...(sic)
> > >
> > >> Well I install Debian on my primary disk and tell lilo to install
> at
> > >
> > > the
> > >
> > >> MBR (unsafe I know)
> > >> Now when I select to boot win98 it appears:
> > >> Loading win
> > >> L?
> > >> And stays there...so what can I do to repair the boot loader and
> start
> > >> Windows?
> > >> I read the lilo doc but isn't appear this exactly message...
> > >
> > > Post your /etc/lilo.conf file.
> > >
> > > I don't think anything's wrong with lilo other than it possibly
> pointing
> > > to the wrong place for Windows. Lilo *is* telling Windows to load
> from
> > > the output you posted.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Hall
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
> > rcastillo@glo.org.mx
> >
> > Vive libre o muere!!!
> > Linux 2001 :)
> >
--
Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
rcastillo@glo.org.mx
Vive libre o muere!!!
Linux 2001 :)
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