Re: OT: Hardware upgrades
Bob Underwood wrote:
>
> On Thursday 15 November 2001 04:16 pm, Erik Steffl wrote:
> > Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
> > >
> > > I have just upgraded my box ( unstable about 3-4 months berhind on the
> > > updates ). The upgrade was from PII 233 BX chipset motherboard to Athlon
> > > 1800+ XP VIA KT266A motherboard. The problem seems to be the following:
> > >
> > > 1. I cannot boot off the hard drive. It will see all the partitions and
> > > system will work fine once booted from floppy/CDROM. It will install and
> > > reinstall LILO without any problems. But every time I try to boot off of
> > > HD I get there is not boot device insert bootable disk and press enter or
> > > something. If anyone has any suggestions I would truly appreciate.
> >
> > first the obvious: check bios settings,
> >
> > now just slightly less obvious: make sure lilo is installed on mbr
> > (at least I think that's where it needs to be, check the docs for lilo)
>
> my lilo is installed in /dev/hdc1. win is on hda, as is the mbr, using a
> third-party boot manager. per the /etc/lilo.conf file "Specifies the boot
> device. This is where Lilo installs its boot block. It can be either a
> partition, or the raw device, in which case it installs in the MBR, and will
> overwrite the current MBR."
generally yes, but in his specific case, since he doesn't have
anything bootable on mbr, he has to put lilo there.
erik
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