Re: LILO bug?
Alvin Oga wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Marty wrote:
Alvin Oga wrote:
> lilo puts the MBR where you told it ...
> vi /etc/lilo.conf
> boot=/dev/xxxx
>
> that is where it isntalls it
Again, it does not on my systems, under the conditions I described.
- and what do your boot= line say ...
boot=/dev/hda
- how do you "know" that it is doing the right thing or not??
I verified the LILO update to the wrong (SCSI) disk, beyond just
observing that it had been rendered unbootable, if that's what you mean.
- did you delete the mbr info on /dev/hda or /dev/hda1 or /dev/hda2 ...
on each partition you are trying to test
I'm not trying to test any partitions, and deleting MBRs generally seems
like a bad idea to propose as a debugging procedure.
- did you look at the contents of the mbr BEFORE and AFTER you
ran lilo
No, but I think the write to the wrong disk takes precedence over
specifics about what data gets written and where.
- did you change the bios boot order
Again, I tried using disk/bios stanzas without success.
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