On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:30:05PM -0500, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote: > /boot/boot-menu.b: no such file or directory. Hmm... > > > > +++++++++++++++++ > > 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. > > This is what used to happen
I could be wrong about that being what makes the menu happen. A quick glance at 'man lilo.conf' indicated that it was the source of it. > > > > > 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. > > Actually, I tried that, and LILO refused with the error that it wasn't > able to be written to that type of partition. (NTFS) > "Device 0x0301: Partition type 0x07 does not seem suitable for a lilo > boot sector." There is a difference between /dev/hda and /dev/hda1. You tried to put it in the partition. I'm talking about the master boot record. That would be boot=/dev/hda not boot=/dev/hda1 > > > 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. > > I am starting to think the same thing. Lilo is writing to the boot > sector for /dev/hdb, so I would expect it to preform some basic sanity > checks when it does so. That leaves /dev/hda as the culprit. Same as above. You are writing LILO to the boot sector of the first partition not to the master boot record of the second drive. I don't know what would happen if you used /dev/hdb instead of /dev/hdb1. > > Added 'prompt' on its own line, and raised delay to 100 > I just re-ran liloconfig, once for fd0 and once for hdb1. Booting from > HDD did not work. Booting from the floppy caused this error: > Lilo: descriptor checksum failed > and then stopped without a prompt. I removed the 'prompt' directive, > left the delay at 100, and re-ran LILO again for both drives. Now I can > hit a key to get the menu and boot into either WinXP or Linux. I booted > into XP and ran scandisk on dixk C:\ (hda), which found no errors. > > -Jonathan > So now you get the red menu when you hit any key using the floppy? Well, I don't know anything more to tell you. I'm surprised someone more in the know hasn't chimed in already. LOL. At this point I don't know what to recommend. I don't know where /boot/boot-menu.b comes from. I did 'dpkg -S' on the file and it says it's part of the lilo package. It's about 7Kb in size. Anita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
