On Monday 30 July 2001 16:34, David List wrote:
On Monday 30 July 2001 18:53, Bruce Marshall wrote:
I'm beginning to think this is not a hardware problem... Lilo can get fussy.
I'd use Tom's rootboot or some other way to boot into a linux system.
You said you ran lilo at one point so maybe you booted in with a floppy. Did the drives seem ok (both online) at the time?
Yes. I could fdisk and format the /dev/sdb.
Ever tried a grub boot floppy? Grub is easy to work with and allows you to make changes to the boot config on the fly so you can test various things.
Could send you an image for a grub boot floppy.
Yes, please do when you can spare the time. But how about loading the necessary sym53c8xx module. How does one go about that with grub?
Grub doesn't do any module handling.... what it does is start up your kernel which then would load the modules you need with initrd if they aren't compiled in. What I could do for you is to set up an entry on the grub boot floppy so you don't have to edit one in. Wanna send me your lilo.conf? and point out which entry you want for grub? I think it would have all the info I need. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 07/30/01 17:39 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "The minute a man is convinced that he is interesting, he isn't."