Trouble with LILO...
I have kind of a unique situation, and googling for help hasn't really
turned up anything that's applicable, so I'm turning to the mailing list for
some help. Here's the run-down:
Installed Debian (Woody stable) on a fairly old computer. I wanted to use a
huge (120GB) harddrive, but the BIOS doesn't support huge IDE drives, so I
did the following:
Installed Windows 98 on a 545MB HDD (Master on the Primary IDE Channel, aka
/dev/hda1).
Installed Debian on a 120GB HDD (Master on the Secondary IDE Channel, aka
/dev/hdc1).
Used loadlin to boot into Debian Linux.
This has worked great for me. I simply told the BIOS there was only 1 HDD
installed (the 545MB one), and it happily booted into Windows, which then
happily ran loadlin, which happily booted Debian. The kernel, which talks
to the IDE controller directly, had no trouble finding, mounting, and using
/dev/hdc1.
However, I recently upgraded the MOBO, and since the BIOS on the new MOBO
supports huge IDE drives, I'd like to get rid of the funky boot process
described above, and boot directly into Linux using LILO.
From everything I read, the boot device does not have to be /dev/hda, so I
figured I'd leave the 120GB HDD at /dev/hdc (and uninstall the 545MB drive
altogether). So... I created the following /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hdc
root=/dev/hdc1
lba32
vga=normal
delay=100
image=/vmlinuz
initrd=/initrd.img
read-only
I ran lilo, which didn't have anything interesting to say other than the
fact that /dev/hdc is not the 1st harddrive.
I also ran "lilo -A /dev/hdc 1" to mark the 1st partition, /dev/hdc1, as
bootable.
Finally, I shutdown the machine, unplugged the 5454MB harddrive, powered up,
and, instead of booting into Debian, I get:
L01 01 01 01 01 01 [ad nauseum]
Any clue what I did wrong?
-Tom
P.S. If I re-install the 545MB drive, I can still boot Debian just fine
using the loadlin mothod.
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