Kevin McKinley wrote:
This fixed it! I had to erase one tiny number and now it boots with kernel 2.4.18.On Wed, 28 May 2003 08:36:33 -0700 Brian <debian@rurnt.com> wrote:/etc/lilo.conf ----------------- boot=/dev/hda3 root=/dev/hda3 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label = Linux read-only ---------------------This told lilo to put the boot loader in the partition boot record for hda3. If you want lilo to boot the machine, you should change the first line to read: boot=/dev/hda then run /sbin/lilo. Kevin
I imagine that it'd be tough to anticipate every user's partioning scheme in writing the newbie howto, but perhaps you could tell people to before they start do a fdisk -l to list their partitions and make note of what they are called. I get:
Device Boot/dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 *
and lilo.conf wanted boot=/dev/hda instead of boot=/dev/hda3I can't say I truly understand why it works that way yet, but perhaps you do and could explain to newbies what to look for in the above information in order to answer LILO's questions more intelligently. I have to say the most daunting part of the whole process were the questions about LILO at the end because you've been warned you may screw things up and not be able to boot anymore. Of course, the mere fear of that probably helped cause it in my case!