[ale] LILO blues

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

Okay, I was able to get the MBR to write to /dev/sda this time, however,
at boot time, I get LI, and nothing more.  Any ideas here?  I did run lilo
after modifying the lilo.conf, and I didn't get any errors.

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On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Glenn C. Lasher Jr. wrote:

> Looks like the "boot=" line is likely the culprit.  I can't check it just
> at the moment, due to being booted into Winblows NT and doing a hefty
> download, but I will check it in a bit.  Many thanks.
> 
> BTW, I had the foresight to make a kernel disk after running setup.  I can
> boot from that just fine and get the syetem properly rooted.  I just wnat
> to wean th emachine off of the floppy, if you get my drift.
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> 
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> On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 jj at spiderentertainment.com wrote:
> 
> > Well, if you installed slackware.
> > Boot from a floppy,
> > mount the partition as mnt
> > edit your lilo.conf in etc, specify sda for boot partition
> > (/mnt/etc/lilo.conf)
> > boot=/dev/sda
> > then run lilo with:
> > lilo -v -r /mnt
> > 
> > Do the same for the other os.
> > 
> > 
> > "Glenn C. Lasher Jr." wrote:
> > 
> > > Hm.  Well, where do I start?
> > >
> > > Well, I blew away my Slackware 3.3 by accident, and it was residing on
> > > /dev/hda2, with home mounted on /dev/hda3 and a couple of other
> > > miscellaneous things on /dev/hda4 and /dev/hdc2.  /dev/hda1 and hdc1 were
> > > swap partitions.
> > >
> > > This happened while trying to install Slackware 4.0 on /dev/sda1.  Its
> > > home would be /dev/sda2, with other stuff on /dev/sdb2 and swap on
> > > /dev/sdb1.  This was, in turn to make room for Winblows NT to go on
> > > /dev/hda and /dev/hdc. (unfortunately, a requisite for my work).
> > >
> > > What happened is this:  LILO decided that it was going to take over the
> > > hda mbr instead of the sda one like it was supposed to do.  As a result,
> > > neither OS boots, unless I plug in a bootable floppy, for Linux, or use
> > > DOS fdisk to clobber the LILO on hda.
> > >
> > > My system can be configured to boot from either hda or sda.  I want to
> > > switch OS's by changing this parameter in the BIOS.  Therefore, I need to
> > > have LILO on sda.  Why won't it go there?!?!?
> > >
> > > Many thanks.
> > >
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