RE: Lilo Problems

["Jefferson Cowart" <jeff@cowart.net>]

Sorry I mis-typed the rescue line. My root is /dev/sda3 and I type
"rescure root=/dev/sda3". Below is my lilo.conf file with comments
removed. In addition I've included my /etc/fstab file and the output of
df -h to show my /boot partition is small and at the front of the drive.

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/etc/lilo.conf
==============
lba32
boot=/dev/sda
root=/dev/sda3
install=/boot/boot-menu.b
map=/boot/map
delay=20
vga=normal
default=Linux
image=/vmlinuz
        label=Linux
        read-only
#       restricted
#       alias=1
==============
/etc/fstab
==============
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>               <dump>
<pass>
/dev/sda3       /               ext2    errors=remount-ro       0
1
/dev/sda2       none            swap    sw                      0
0
proc            /proc           proc    defaults                0
0
/dev/fd0        /floppy         auto    user,noauto             0
0
/dev/cdrom      /cdrom          iso9660 ro,user,noauto          0
0
/dev/sda1       /boot           ext2    defaults                0
2
/dev/hda1       /var            ext2    defaults                0
2
==============
df -h
==============
# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3             7.9G  229M  7.2G   3% /
/dev/sda1              45M  1.1M   42M   3% /boot
/dev/hda1             5.9G  106M  5.5G   2% /var



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Thanks
Jefferson Cowart
Jeff@cowart.net 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kent West [mailto:westk@acu.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 05:19
> To: Jefferson Cowart
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Lilo Problems
> 
> 
> Jefferson Cowart wrote:
> 
> >I've installed a new server (woody 3.0r1 + proposed updates 
> + security
> >updates) on a system that is running with root on sda3. Lilo 
> seems to be
> >having problems as on boot it outputs and L followed by 01 
> 01 01 and on
> >and on. i.e. "L 01 01 01 01..." Any clues what the problem 
> is? I'm able
> >to get in using cd3 as a rescue disk and specifying "rescue
> >root=/dev/sda1". The bios is configured to boot the SCSI drive first.
> >
> >Please CC me on any responses as I'm not subscribed to this list.
> >  
> >
> 
> You might post the relevant bits of "/etc/lilo.conf". I 
> suspect you have 
> a line:
> 
> You claim that your root is on /dev/sda3, yet your rescue 
> works when you 
> point to /dev/sda1. There's some confusion here. I suspect this 
> confusion is also being "felt" by lilo.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kent West (westk@acu.edu)
> 
> 
>