Re: moving boot drive around and lilo
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 01:10:12 +0200,
james terris <shinden@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 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?
>
On reviewing the lilo documentation (/usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz)
<blockquote>
LILO depends on the BIOS to load the following items:
- /boot/boot.b
- /boot/map (created when running /sbin/lilo)
- all kernels
- the boot sectors of all other operating systems it boots
- the startup message, if one has been defined
</blockquote>
I believe even newer BIOSes are limited to 4 disks, older ones may be
limited to 2, so you could try moving the disk to a a different
controller or putting /boot on /dev/hd[a-d]. I have no idea of Grubs
limitations as I've been happy with lilo.
GL,
Michael C.
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