Quoting Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 04:22:15PM +0100, Peter Bartosch wrote: > > > I have the same situation to Tam. Whenever I boot my PC, It only > > > show " LI" and freeze. The different thing is I have only one disk ( > > > 2GB) and all dedicated to linux. No other operating system inside. > > > The /etc/lilo.conf content is > > > boot=/dev/hda1 > > ^--- > > > > you have to write "boot=/dev/hda" here -- lilo should be written into the > > mba of the first drive not the first partition (which have no mba) > > No, that's not correct. boot=/dev/hda1 is fine, as long as "mbr" or > the standard MS-DOS boot code is in the master boot record, and the Linux > partition is marked active. > > I suggest leaving the configuration file alone and just running /sbin/lilo > again; that might fix it.
Oops, you've reminded me. That was the other change I had to make, boot=/dev/hda instead of boot=/dev/hda2 (in my case, swap is first). The first change being to add linear, see the "hard drive" thread". Only when I reverted to rebuilding the disk in my ancient 486 was I able to revert to non-linear and boot=/dev/hda2. From a position of ignorance, I can only suppose that the DOS mbr couldn't find /dev/hda2 because the BIOS which it was cooperating with did not understand the geometry of the disk. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
