Re: trouble with LILO
Andrew Kelly <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.release.enigma |
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| Organization | Transparency International |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Keith Mastin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am having two hard disks. I have installed > > windows Me on my first disk & on the other disk > > RedHat-7.2. I have installed LILO on hda but I am > > unable to boot Linux, during booting LILO prints LI > > and stops. > > The second stage boot loader loaded, but could not run. Either lilo is > barfing in the second stage of the process... (can't find the kernel?) or > there's a geometry problem at the bios level, but I don't think that's the > case here. I have pretty good cold at the moment and need to rtfm just to get my shoes tied, but, don't the kernel and associated files (commonly /boot) need to be within the first 1024 cylinders of the primary (boot) drive? > > > where should I install LILO? I cannot install Linux on > > the first disk. can you please let me know how lilo.conf > > should be modified? I don't want to use Loadlin. I might be wrong, but I think if you can't get what LILO needs onto the right part of the first disk, you won't be able to use LILO at all. (What LILO needs, isn't that a song or something?) I've never used GRUB but I understand that it is much more flexible than LILO. > You need to boot with your boot disk and get the machine running in linux. > Run lilo again, and check lilo.conf after that. If you want to use lilo to > boot both operating systems, it should be on the mbr of the primary master > disk (sd0 in scsi) so it can also boot M$. > > Pretty simple, the rest of it. Lilo.conf should look something like: > > boot=/dev/hdb2 #path to kernel > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > images=/boot/vmlinuz-<version> > label=linux > root=/dev/hdb2 > initrd=/boot/initrd-<version> > > other = /deb/hda1 > label = dos > table = /dev/hda > > HTH > -- > Keith Mastin > BeechTree Information Technology Services Inc. > Toronto, Canada > (416)696 6070 > > _______________________________________________ > enigma-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/enigma-list -- Andrew Kelly IT Transparency International Otto-Suhr-Allee 97/99 10585 Berlin, Germany Tel: +4930 3438 2026, Fax: +4930 3470 3912 [email protected]