On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 11:22:15 +0100 Stephen Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied:
> Hi > > I have a machine with hda and hdb , pretty normal > > I install on hda , fine > I install on hdb , apparently fine > > I boot off hda ok > I boot off hdb abd I get > > LIL- > > Which apparently means The descriptor table is corrupt , which can be caused by > bad geometry or moving boot map and not running lilo. I dont think I have done > either of these > > I was hoping to simply be able to boot hdb by altering the bios if hda failed, > seemed simple enough :) > > Any ideas Do an fdisk -l /dev/hdb and look at the output. If there are any + at the end of the Blocks numbers, the geometry is bad and it won't boot from lilo. I used boot floppies for ages because I let RH autopartition once a long time ago and it ended up with that problem. I finally got sick of it a couple of weeks ago, wiped it all and manually fdisked it all until all of the + went away. Now it uses lilo just fine. -- Weird enough for government work. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
