On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Uncle Meat wrote:
>
> On 04-Jun-2000 Mikkel L. Ellertson opined:
>
> > Now, as for your LILO boot problem, I am not sure exactly what the
> > problem
> > is. It would help to see your /etc/lilo.conf file, and to know more
> > about
> > the system you are running. Depending on your BIOS, you may not be able
> > to use LILO with /boot on the third hard drive. You can still run Linux,
> > but you may have to use Loadlin or a boot floppy to start it.
> >
> > Hopefully, someone with more experence using LILO to boot from a third
> > IDE
> > drive will respond with more info! But at least this should get you
> > going
> > for now.
>
> Been booting from hdc1 and hdd1 for over a year without a hitch.
>
According to the LILO docs, it is BIOS dependent. It works for some, but
not for others. I have done it also.
>
> If I understand the problem and partitioning layout, the root partition was
> located on a fireball slave, and that was mentioned as unuseable because
> both a) it had another partition (or more) already located on it, and b) the
> only available space was located above cylinder 1280. That's where the
> problem is. No mention was made of a /boot partition on drive 3. So, the
> /boot directory is located in the / partition, which is above cylinder 1280.
>
No - /boot is on the Western Digital drive. /dev/hdc2
: I created the following partitions using fdisk on the western digital
: drive:
:
: one 16MB swap partition
: one 16MB /boot partition
: and the rest was for /usr I think, but on a 4 gig
:partition on the fireball slave I added the root partition.
:
>
> Reinstall, place a /boot partition as /dev/hdc1 or place the entire /
> partition as /dev/hdc1 (below 1023), add the 'Doze boot materials (/dev/hda1
> presumably), wirte lilo and everything should work okey-dokey.
>
> A better use for the end of /dev/hdb would be swap if it's small or
> something suitable, like /var or /usr if it's too big for swap.
>
>
Mikkel
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