[ale] LILO Blues continue....

[ryan at toast.wildfyre.com]

First, let me say that it would be a great leap forward in the Linux world
if we could rid ourselves of LILO.  That being said, have you tried
changing the "boot=" parameter to /dev/hda?  Also, sometimes it is
necessary to add the command "linear" to the global settings if you have
scsi drives


Ryan Bridges
<ryanbridges at mindspring.com>

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Glenn C. Lasher Jr. wrote:

> 
> 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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