Re: moving boot drive around and lilo

[james terris <shinden@sympatico.ca>]

> > That installs lilo! yay!
> > Of course now I have a new problem.
> > When I reboot I get:
> >
> > LI
> >
> > So I changed lilo.conf from:
> > disk=/dev/hde
> > bios=0x80
> > boot=/dev/hda
> > root=/dev/hde1
> >
> > to:
> > #disk=/dev/hde
> > #bios=0x80
> > boot=/dev/hda
> > root=/dev/hde1
> >
> > and now I get:
> > LILO 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 
> > 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 
> > 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
> >
> > until I reboot it.
> >
> > Any ideas what could be causing either of those problems?
> >
> > thx,
> > james
>
>
> You moved the drive from /dev/hda to /dev/hde , meaning that the
> physical location of the disk on your IDE chain has changed, right?
>
> So, um, why boot=/dev/hda rather than boot=/dev/hde?

Because I thought that boot= indicates where you want the boot
loader to be installed? Shouldn't I install the boot loader
on my first drive? if i don't have it there then my system
just hangs and does nothing at all after it displays cpu, memory
etc (standard bios screen). My drive at hda was completely
blank when i put it there so it had no mbr. should i run
lilo twice, once for hda and then once for hde?

ttyl,
james

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