RE: Problem booting my system

[Kris Huber <khuber@sorensontech.com>]

Thanks Robert,

I've got my system up now, and I didn't have to resort to putting the boot
partition on the IDE drive.  I think the main problem was in the lilo.conf
file being incorrect.  When I used the default file it (mostly) worked.  I
made an entry in the fstab file instructing it to mount read-write.  Upon
boot-up fsck was always giving an error about the root partition, but yet
when I ran fsck it always reported 'clean' for me.

I'm not sure what the most important difference was, but this lilo.conf
worked:
	lba32
	boot=/dev/sda
	root=/dev/sda2
	install=/boot/boot.b
	map=/boot/map
	delay=50
	vga=normal
	default=Linux
	image=/vmlinuz
		label=Linux
		read-only
	image=/vmlinuz.old
		label=LinuxOLD
		read-only
		optional
where /vmlinuz was a symbolic link to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17-compact. 

This lilo.conf seemed to not work for me (although it had worked earlier,
extended with various kernel options, etc.):
	boot=/dev/sda
	map=/boot/map
	install=/boot/boot.b
	#prompt
	lba32
	#vga=ask
	timeout=50
	default=linux
	image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17-compact
		label=linux
		root=/dev/sda2
		read-only
		append = ""
I noticed that under Linux the IDE drive is found whether or not it is
enabled in BIOS.  I disconnected power from it for awhile to make sure the
system only saw the SCSI drive, but I don't think that was the problem after
all.

-Kris

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Waldner [mailto:waldner@waldner.priv.at]
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 6:18 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Problem booting my system 



On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 18:10:09 MDT, Kris Huber writes:
>With the boot sequence having scsi first, a program (the kernel, I assume)
>runs and prints "001 " in an endless loop, filling the screen until I
><cntl><alt><del>.  I have an IDE drive in the system (ext2 file system),
but
>I've disabled it in BIOS in addition to not selecting it as a boot drive.

Have you looked at
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200109/msg03337.html
?

cheers,
&rw
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