On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 05:02:23PM -0500, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:
> >
> > boot=/dev/fd0
> >
> > in place of boot=/dev/hda
>
> Actually, I have been using /dev/hdb1 without problems until recently.
>
> > Then put a floppy in and run /sbin/lilo. Leave the floppy in and boot.
> If
> > that works, then you can figure out what to set for booting.
>
> That worked...sortof. Lilo started Linux up immediatly without an option
> screen. I recieved a brief text line, "Lilo 22.2: starting Linux"
> and the local kernel booted.
>
> > Does your lilo.conf say that boot=/dev/hda1? Maybe that is the problem.
> I
> > know you have xp and I'm not sure if writing it to /dev/hda instead of
> > /dev/hda1 would be a good idea. Well, try the floppy thing and see what
> > happens with that.
> >
> > How are you booting XP, btw?
>
> I was booting XP with LILO as an "other" like this:
> other="Windows XP Home"
> boot=/dev/hda1
>
> The entry remains in lilo.conf, but it did not seem to have any effect when
> booting from a floppy.
>
> -Jonathan
Ok, that's a step in the right direction. We know that the lilo.conf is
working. If you hit TAB during the LILO startup before it goes off into
Linux, You will probably see windows as a choice and you could type that in
and go to xp.
The menu is produced from /boot/boot-menu.b I think you need the word
prompt for that. I'm not sure. I have the menu and my config file looks
like this on top:
+++++++++++++++++++++
boot=/dev/fd0
map=/boot/map
prompt
lba32
vga=normal
delay=100
timeout=100
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20
label=Debian
read-only
root=/dev/hda6
+++++++++++++++++
I have other things under that, and when I boot, I get a red menu with the
list to choose from. It waits a while and then goes off to load the first
one if I don't choose.
I'm afraid that I do not know anything about putting LILO in a partition -
I've only put it in the mbr of the first drive or on a floppy before.
I don't understand how LILO could be in /dev/hdb1 and have both hda1 and
hdb1 bootable. I thought that whatever was in /dev/hda1 would then boot.
I would suggest putting LILO in the mbr of the first drive (/dev/hda) except
that I don't know if that would wipe out something that is needed in order
to boot XP. I know it would be OK for Win 98, but don't know about XP.
To me it looks like LILO was somewhere and got removed and that which is on
/dev/hdb1 was never really what was being used. That sounds kind of off the
wall, but I'm not an expert on LILO either. You have written the same thing
that is written on /dev/hdb1 onto the floppy and that works (no menu, but no
01's either) so that means that some other place on your drives is getting
accessed during the boot - something other then the boot sector on /dev/hdb1
unless maybe that boot sector is shot for some reason. That doesn't sound
good and I don't even know if that is possible.
Anita
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