Re: system reboots before booting

[Svenn Are Bjerkem <svenn@bjerkem.de>]

On Wednesday 13 August 2003 21:28, David Fokkema wrote:
> Hmmm... this looks good as far as I can see... What I don't understand
> is that lilo complained that the map file and the boot sector were on
> different drives. I _never_ got that error. However, it might mean
> nothing...

It means nothing. It is just a warning
I  got the same message during the same problem after moving my stuff from 
hdb2 to hda2 because I got a new and better disk. I downloaded source of lilo 
and checked the particular warning message. lilo store the bios number of the 
harddisk in root in bios_root and the bios number of the boot device in 
bios_boot and if you use a floppy it has bios number 0x00 and the bios_root 
will have , say 0x80 and these two numbers are checked with a == against each 
other. Unless the nowarn flag is set, the message is printed.

I was wasting many hours trying to track my problem back to this message.
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Svenn