Re: Trouble with LILO...

2005-05-17 Thread Peter J Ross
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 11:13:35AM -0400, Thomas Chadwick wrote: > I have kind of a unique situation, and googling for help hasn't really > turned up anything that's applicable, so I'm turning to the mailing list > for some help. Here's the run-down: > > Installed Debian (Woody stable) on a fa

Re: Trouble with LILO...

2005-05-13 Thread Marty
I wrote: Once the drive is self-booting you should be able to make it "slave" or "master" in either channel, assuming the BIOS supports that. Correction/clarification: you will still have to run lilo each time to change the device designation (/dev/hda-b) which is (or at least was at one time)

Re: Trouble with LILO...

2005-05-13 Thread Marty
Thomas Chadwick wrote: From: Marty To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Trouble with LILO... Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 14:47:28 -0400 Thomas Chadwick wrote: [snip] I've run into this problem (bug?) many times, and the only consistent work around I've found is to temporarily disconn

Re: Trouble with LILO...

2005-05-13 Thread Thomas Chadwick
From: Marty To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Trouble with LILO... Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 14:47:28 -0400 Thomas Chadwick wrote: [snip] I've run into this problem (bug?) many times, and the only consistent work around I've found is to temporarily disconnect drives othe

Re: Trouble with LILO...

2005-05-13 Thread Marty
Thomas Chadwick wrote: I have kind of a unique situation, and googling for help hasn't really turned up anything that's applicable, so I'm turning to the mailing list for some help. Here's the run-down: Installed Debian (Woody stable) on a fairly old computer. I wanted to use a huge (120GB) h

Re: Trouble with Lilo, Grub, Redhat, and Debian

2003-10-19 Thread John Schofield
You got me close; RedHat docs got me the rest of the way. I'm dual-booting to Debian and RedHat using Grub. The key turned out to be a statement at the end of the Kernel statement in the grub.conf file. From the RedHat Docs: kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 Once I added the root statement to t

Re: Trouble with Lilo, Grub, Redhat, and Debian

2003-10-19 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:40:55AM -0700, John Schofield wrote: > > Was able to mount /boot following your last message, so I'm not > shooting as much in the dark as I was. > > > To recap. > Red Hat 8 on /dev/hda, with a /dev/hda1 /boot, a /dev/hda2 /, and a > /dev/hda3 swap > On /dev/hdb, we

Re: Trouble with Lilo, Grub, Redhat, and Debian

2003-10-19 Thread John Schofield
Was able to mount /boot following your last message, so I'm not shooting as much in the dark as I was. To recap. Red Hat 8 on /dev/hda, with a /dev/hda1 /boot, a /dev/hda2 /, and a /dev/hda3 swap On /dev/hdb, we have: /dev/hdb1 Linux from scratch /, not yet ready to boot /dev/hdb2 Debian woody

Re: Trouble with Lilo, Grub, Redhat, and Debian

2003-10-19 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 10:47:46PM -0700, John Schofield wrote: > > I'm working on a Pentium III system with two IDE hard drives. > > I had Red Hat 8 installed on /dev/hda2, with /boot mounted on > /dev/hda1. Booting via grub. > > I installed Debian Woody on /dev/hdb2. /dev/hdb3 is swap, and

Re: trouble with LILO

1999-04-19 Thread Mark E Drummond
Brian Morgan wrote: > > I just got done installing Debian 2.1 on a 486 33mhz machine. When > rebooting after the install, it hangs on LILO, with the "LI" appearing on > the screen. doesn't ever go anywhere after that. This is caused (AFAIK) by changing something that lilo depends on (eg recompi

Re: trouble with LILO

1999-04-17 Thread Shao Zhang
Have you tried the linear option?? On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 06:51:30PM -0400, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > > I had similar problem (actually also on 486 33 MHz.) I've solved it by > overwriting master boot record. I.e. put in /etc/lilo.conf > boot=/dev/hda instead of boot=/dev/hda1 > and run

Re: trouble with LILO

1999-04-16 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
I had similar problem (actually also on 486 33 MHz.) I've solved it by overwriting master boot record. I.e. put in /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda instead of boot=/dev/hda1 and run lilo again. That should fix it. Sergey. On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: > I just got done installing D

Re: trouble with LILO

1999-04-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: trouble with LILO Date: Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 03:00:03PM -0500 In reply to:Brian Morgan Quoting Brian Morgan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I just got done installing Debian 2.1 on a 486 33mhz machine. When > rebooting after the install, it hangs on LILO, with the "LI" appearing