(following up on myself and on an ancient posting, too. Just for the
sake of completeness and the search-egines in case someone else
experiences such a problem)
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 00:06:24 +0200, Robert Waldner writes:
>I have a machine with a large IDE-disk (hda) and a smaller, but also
> f
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 12:06:24AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I have a machine with a large IDE-disk (hda) and a smaller, but also
> faster SCSI-disk (sda). So the system resides on SCSI, bulk data on
> IDE. So far, so good. But I can´t, for whatever reason, just boot
> comple
Hi,
I finaly found some time to take a second look at my LILO trouble. Thanx for
all your suggestions they have taken me one more step along the way. First
of all the Geometry settings was the same in the BIOS as linux reported.
> I made the same mistake that Joshua and Hakan made. The READMEFI
I made the same mistake that Joshua and Hakan made. The READMEFIRST file
in /usr/doc/lilo gives two possible fixes:
- In linux you can remove lilo from the master boot record with:
lilo -U
- In MSDOS you can remove lilo by:
fdisk /mbr
The lilo -U fix did not work for me since
I had this exact same setup. Slackware on the slave disk and msdos on
the other master disk. And I just recently upgraded to Debian and ran
into the exact same problem. Silly me to forget to uninstall lilo
first! The reason your boot is hanging is that it is looking for the
old lilo that doesnt't
Hi,
> Now, I decided to convert into Debian (I just love it's package system), so I
> through out the Slackware stuff and installed the three disks base system. I
> had to install LILO by hand because the instalation package tried to install
> it on the linx partion, which is the second partio
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