Re: lilo and OpenBSD
On Saturday 25 May 2002 02:07 pm, Rogerio Acquadro wrote:
> On Fri, 24 May 2002, Kang-Ling Weng wrote:
> > Hello debian-user,
> >
> > I have got 2 harddrives
> > hda with Debian
> > hdb with OpenBSD
> >
> > now I am trying to config lilo
> > so that I am to boot into OpenBSD
> > but when adding:
> >
> > other=/dev/hdb1
> > label=OpenBSD
> > read-only
> > alias=3
> >
> > to lilo.conf
> > and run: lilo
> > the output looks like that:
> >
> > Skipping /vmlinuz.old
> > Device 0x0340: Invalid partition table, 1st entry
> > 3D address: 0/0/0 (-1)
> > Linear address: 1/0/0 (0)
> >
> > it seems that lilo can't recognize hdb
> >
> > I tried: cfdisk hdb
> >
> > FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive
> > Press any key to exit cfdisk
> >
> > when I pull off the ide cable of my hda my pc boot
> > into OpenBSD so OpenBSD was installed probably
> >
> > what should I modify in lilo.conf so I can boot into OpenBSD??
>
> Is /dev/hdb1 BSD's /boot? I don't know much about *BSD, but I think that
> there should exist /boot. Try to put /dev/hdb instead of /dev/hdb1.
additionally, you need to use /dev/hdb when using cfdisk.
ben
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