Re: Lilo cannot be installed on the secondary disk

On Thursday 24 April 2003 06:38, hossein sadat wrote:
> I tried to make my linux system installation on a 210M hard disk, so I put
> in in the secondary IDE and as master.
> I made my minimal system and made the root file system and copied them into
> the hard disk. Then I ran lilo with this configuration:

apart from the changes that i have said below when you run lilo do you chroot 
to the '/' of the disk that you are trying to install the bootloader to?  you 
dont actually *have* to you can use the '-b' option but it means changing the 
lilo.conf again.  If i were you i'd mount your harddrive you are trying to 
boot from and then run the command: chroot /mnt/drive /bin/sh and run lilo 
from there.

>
>
> disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x80

put the bios line on a seperate line.  try and keep things consistent.

> boot=/dev/hdc
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
>
> prompt
> timeout=10
> image=/boot/bzImage
> label=linux
>
> root=/dev/hda1

this line; shouldnt it read: root=/dev/hdc1

>
> read-only
>
> When I place this second hard disk on the primary IDE, the following
> appears and nothing else happens:
>
> LI
>
> I think the problem is that, LILO cannot find out that I'm installing it on
> the secondary disk. Probably the map and boot locations are the source of
> problem.
>
> Please help me resolve this. Thanks for your help.
>
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