I have been trying to install debian 2.0 for a couple of days and I cannot get 
LILO to work.

My setup is :
Intel CPU
SCSI disk 1 (sda) dedicated to Windows 95
SCSI disk 2 (sdb) dedicated to linux, debian 2.0, kernel 2.0.34 installed from  
CDROM.
Root partition is /dev/sdb1.
Linux boots correctly either from the rescue disk on CDROM or from the boot 
floppy I made during installation. In that case, BIOS is configured to boot 
from CDROM (primary) or floppy (secondary)

My wish is :
getting the lilo prompt at boot and be able to select windows or linux. My 
previous installation (redhat 5.0) did just that. In that case, BIOS is 
configured to boot "from SCSI" (I do not have the choice of disk, I assume it 
is the first one, SCSI ID = 0)

The symptoms are:
I get the lilo prompt at boot , the boot process begins OK, but reboots at some 
point. I do not have time to read correctly the screen at that particular 
point, but it seems to me that it happens just before starting the INIT 
process, after a line like "VFS: mounted root read only" is displayed.

My lilo.conf is :
boot=/dev/sda
root=/dev/sdb1
install=/boot/bootb
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=100
append="mem 97M"
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
other=/dev/sda1
label=win

I would appreciate any help or pointers to useful doc or means of investigation.

Yours,

J-F Rit
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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