Re: Problem Booting After Install
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent West" <westk@acu.edu>
To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install
> Scott MacMaster wrote:
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Kent West" <westk@acu.edu>
> >To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> >Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:35 PM
> >Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Scott MacMaster wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>>>I was able to view the contents of lilo.conf. Here are the contents
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>lba32
> >>>>>boot=/dev/hdb1
> >>>>>root=/dev/hdb1
> >>>>>install=/boot/boot-menu.b
> >>>>>map=/boot/map
> >>>>>delay=20
> >>>>>vga=normal
> >>>>>default=Linux
> >>>>>image=/vmlinuz
> >>>>> label=Linux
> >>>>> read-only
> >>>>>image=/vmlinuz.old
> >>>>> label=LinuxOLD
> >>>>> read-only
> >>>>> optional
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>This is the output lilo gives:
> >>>
> >>>Warning: /dev/hdb1 is not on the first disk
> >>>Added Linux *
> >>>Skipping /vmlinuz.old
> >>>
> >>>However, it still doesn't work. After the screen goes blank this is
the
> >>>output I get (when I try to boot off the hd).
> >>>
> >>>MBR
> >>>
> >>>L 01 01 01...
> >>>01 01 01...
> >>>01 01 01...
> >>>01 01 01...
> >>>.
> >>>.
> >>>.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Try changing the line:
> >>
> >>boot=/dev/hdb1
> >>
> >>to
> >>boot=/dev/hdb
> >>
> >>and rerun lilo.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >This didn't work. I got the same results as before, except it's
displaying
> >40 instead of 01.
> >
> >
> >
> Can your BIOS boot off the slave of the primary controller? I assume it
> can, since you're getting partial results, but still, had to ask.
I have booted off my second hard drive in the past. I don't recall if it
was with this hard drive and motherboard or not. I've long since switched
to booting my second os from a boot floppy. I found it quicker and simpler.
> Has this disk every been "infected" with any non-standard boot loaders,
> like a boot sector virus, or like Bootworks (from Altiris), etc?
If this was the hard drive I had booted from in the past then there was a
differant boot loader on it at one time. If it's ever had a boot sector
virus I don't know about it.
> You might try "install-mbr /dev/hdb", although I don't really understand
> the ins-and-outs of this utility (see "man install-mbr"), so I'm not
> sure what the result will be. Still, I'd try it.
This seemed to have no effect. After looking through the man I found an
option that I can use to specify bootable partition. I tried using that
option but it also had no effects.
Any other thoughts?
Thanks,
Scott MacMaster
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