[ale] LILO Blues continue....
Glenn C. Lasher Jr.
critter at wizvax.net
Wed Aug 25 07:11:19 EDT 1999
Okay, here's the latest.
Returned to Slackware 3.3 due to other problems than LILO.
The entire system looks like this:
/dev/hda: Western Digital 1.6 GB
hda1: Windows NT Boot (NTFS)
/dev/hdc: Quantum Fireball 3.2GB
hdc1: 500MB FAT16 (for sharing files between Linux/NT)
hdc2: 2.7GB NTFS
/dev/hdd: CD-ROM
/dev/sda: Seagate 1.0GB
sda1: 745MB Linux root (ext2)
sda2: 275MG /home (ext2)
/dev/sdb: Quantum Fireball 1.2GB
sdb1: 160MB Swap
sdb2: 1.1GB /aux1 (ext2)
/dev/sdc: Iomega Zip 100
There are 80MB of RAM. The processor is an AMD K5Pr166. The BIOS on the
motherboard supports booting from SCSI. From a previous configuration, I
had had NT booting from SCSI and Linux from IDE. I am trying to reverse
that trend, so that NT boots from IDE (a success, BTW) and Linux from
SCSI. Here is my current lilo.conf:
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/sda
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
delay = 50
vga = normal # force sane state
# ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda1
label = Linux
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Test kernel bootable partition config begins
image = /zImage
root = /dev/sda1
label = Test
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Test kernel bootable partition config ends
When I run lilo with this lilo.conf, I get the message:
Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk
Added Linux *
Added Test
I also tried going into the BIOS and disabling all IDE devices, and I
still get this message.
Naturally, Linux doesn't boot. I get LI and then it stops.
Any ideas, anyone?
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