<SNAP ON> ---------- From: Charles A. Schuman[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 1996 11:52 PM To: Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE Cc: Happy Linux Users Subject: No Subject
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE wrote: > For myself (I have a look-alike partitions table), I prefer > to boot with a floppy and rerun LILO on my MBR. You will > set it by replacing your boot line by boot=/dev/sda who > will write on your sda MBR, in place of /dev/sda2 who > would write on your partition. After that, just run lilo > when you're root. the Boot flag are only use in OS/2 or > MS-OSs at my knowledge. It's better to only have one set > because MS-DOS doesn't support multiple boot parts. I replaced line "boot=/dev/sda2" with "boot=/dev/sda" and now I've an endless loop that goes: LILO Loading Linux....... LILO Loading Linux....... LILO Loading Linux....... LILO Loading Linux....... LILO Loading Linux....... LILO Loading Linux....... with the seven dots. Pressing shift gives me the LILO boot: What should I try next to get the hard drive to boot the kernel on the second partition? I may have ruined it by writing a boot record onto the second partition. I really don't know what I've done. I made sure to check the second partition - it is set active/bootable. I'd made a typo earlier and ommited the star (*). Missing Linux, Charles <SNAP OFF> Sorry about it :( I never got this problem before... and I succeed all the time with whatever partition on my HD by putting LILO on my MBR (I already succeed to make LILO run the OS/2 Boot Manager partition and an NT BOOT partition which it doesn't supposed to be.) For myself, lilo always do a good job but I suggest you to check two things : your kernel bootup (with rdev... I use it when I'm on Slackware but hope it was already in the Debian release...) and trying to clean you're boot sector on sda2 with cfdisk but be careful with it! It's easy to erase lot of stock with it. I hope you can already load from a floppy with root=/dev/sda2. And keep looking on this mail list... I'm not an expert in lilo and boot sector, I was just doing lot of weird installations as "hobby" :) Don't give up! You will more luv your Linux when you'll go through this! GoodLuck! Fab.
