i'm hardly a lilo expert, but . . . > 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 this means that it's trying to load the kernel from your windows disk. Which means that windows can do bad things to it (oh, and remember to draw a pentium around the computer before launching windows or otherwise trafficing with demons :) Are you doing this for a reason? once lilo is in there, it can use sdb. > root=/dev/sdb1 > install=/boot/bootb > map=/boot/map > vga=normal > delay=100 > append="mem 97M" 9*7* M? I assume you mean 96. I'm not sure what happens when you tell it more than your really have, but i think it goes ahead an duses it, which can't be good . . . > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-only > other=/dev/sda1 > label=win rick - - -- - ------- End of Unsent Draft ------- End of Forwarded Message --
