On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:11:43 -0300 (BRST) "Daniel Figueira" <danielf@mandic.com.br> wrote: > I am trying to install the bare minimum of woody bf2.4. > I have the following partitions on my hard drive: > hda1 windows - 80GB - NTFS > hdc1 /boot - 25MB - ext3 > hdc2 /home - 05GB - ext3 > hdc3 / - 25GB - ext3 > hdc4 /swap - rest of hd > > I have chosen to place lilo on hdc. > I configured my BIOS to boot off of hdc and not hda. > When I reboot I get message "L 01 01 01 ...". I looked through lilo > documentation(http://www.ipcop.org/1.3.0/en/install/html/LILO-errors. > html) and it says:"_Illegal command_. This shouldn't happen, but if it > does, it may indicated an attempt to access a disk which is not > supported by the BIOS." I used a floppy disk to boot and ran lilo as > root. I rebooted. Then I got the message:"L 80 80 80..." documentation > says:"_Disk timeout_. The disk or the drive isn't ready. Either the > media is bad or the disk isn't spinning. If you're booting from a > floppy, you might not have closed the drive door. Otherwise, trying to > boot again might help." I once again booted using a floppy. I changed > line boot=/dev/hdc1 to boot=/dev/hdc. ran lilo as root, and rebooted. > Then I got the message:"L 40 40 40 40..." documentation says: > "_Seek failure_. This might be a media problem. Try booting again." > > Before choosing to install woody I had a variant of Knoppix called > Kurumin installed on my hard drive. Kurumin is based on Debian and it > worked just fine. When I had Kurumin installed I had one big / > partition taking up the whole hdc drive. <snip> Try adding/uncommenting the following two lines in your /etc/lilo.conf file: disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x80 You will need to boot from a boot disk to do this, then mount at least your / and /boot partitions. Make sure your /boot partition is mounted in the boot directory on your / partition, not just any directory. After you make the changes run"lilo-r mount/point/for/hdc_root". HTH, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #28: Linux. When you want to get there today!
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