Re: Lilo

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Thanks Will,

Unfortunately, I still have a problem with it. First time I tried
/sbin/lilo -v told me that it couldn't find the partition on hda. I checked
with cfdisk and it told me that I have one partition hda1 - lilo.conf was
just lookjng for hda . So, I altered that and ran lilo again. However,
despite several attempts, I can't get it to go any further than LI  on
bootup.
Currently my lilo.conf reads:-

boot = /dev/hda
timeout = 50
prompt
default = linux
vga = normal
read-only
map = /boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b

image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
label = linux
root = /dev/hdc5

other = /dev/hda1
label = win
table = /dev/hda

This looks substantially like the lilo.conf on my other linux machine. When
I now run /sbin/lilo -v I get:-

/sbin/lilo -v
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Merging with /boot/boot.b
boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
Added linux*
Boot other: /dev/hda1. on /dev/hda. loader /boot/chain.b
Added win
/boot/boot.0300 exists - no backup copy made
Writing boot sector

It doesn't seem to be giving any error messages except perhaps that it can't
make a backup? Anyway, it still won't boot past the LI stage and so I am
having to start the machine with a boot floppy every time (which works fine)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks,

Ian
--
Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK


----- Original Message -----
From: <will [at] south-of-heaven.demon.co.uk>
To: <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: 13 February 2000 03:38
Subject: Re: Lilo


> > I've just had a problem with my system and I'm stuck. Its a 2 hard drive
> > system dual booting win 95 and RH linux 6.1 with windows on the 'C'
drive.
> > Windows and the C drive crashed big time and I had to both repartition
and
> > reformat it before I could get windows to load again.  However, now Lilo
> > won't work and, trying to configure it in Linuxconf doesn't seem to get
me
> > anywhere.  Can anyone offer any advice please, surely I don't have to
> > completely reload linux?
>
> Try /sbin/lilo -v at the shell.
> It should say if there are any errors. (e.g. broke disk, kernel too big)
>
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