Fw: Re. Re: [SLE] LILO/BOOT PROBLEM- need help
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From: "Jeff Barnes"
I need help with a boot problem concerning lilo I statrtd with a harddisk that would boot windows and a different hard disk that would boot linux. I decided to get a little too brave and tried to make lilo handle both of them. I added dos to the existing lilo.conf with yast. then i executed /sbin/lilo. On rebooting lilo gave some hex error code. In frustration I did fdisk /MBR on the hard disk that contains the linux system and then tried modifying lilo.conf again. now when lilo should hopefully work when I boot on the linux disk I get a screen of repeating 010101010101.....
I can bring linux up by booting from the CD's and to make this long story short----how can I fix this short of reinstalling my linux system completely?
Firstly you should not have to re-install Linux - so wait a moment! You have not given enough information here. Explain a bit more about how you were booting from the 2 different disks, name names !
Cliff
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From: tabanna
when trying to boot now lilo prints "LI" and freezes.
Hi :) prolly : use SuSE Boot disk [ image also on CD ] . . . then chose Install, then option "Boot Installed System" /dev/hdx.xx [enter your / part.] Then, re-run <lilo> . . . prolly that will fix it best wishes <p> -- ____________ sent on Linux ____________ 100% Virus Free! AMD Inside
From: EagleIce
The windows disk was primary master disk named hda1. It has normal dos MBR. The linux disk was secondary master. Boot is hdc1, swap is hdc2 and root is hdc3. I was switching disks originally by switching the cmos from disk to disk. When the linux was installed on the second disk it was installed as the only operating system on computer, used the full hard disk, yast2 did formatting for me., yast2 choose lilo configuration for me.
when trying to boot now lilo prints "LI" and freezes. This change occured after trying the method in the recent SLE letter "need help" Did my typing fdisk/MBR from a dos fdisk program damage hdc1? No it didn't.
Your /etc/fstab 'could' look something like this: _____________________________________________________ /dev/hdc3 / ext2 defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc2 /swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat noauto,user 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 and then your cdrom & floppy or whatever _____________________________________________________ In this case your /etc/lilo.conf 'could' look something like this: _____________________________________________________ initrd=/boot/initrd boot = /dev/hda vga = normal read-only prompt # If you want a timout at the boot promt, 300 = 30 sec timeout = 300 message = /boot/message # image = /boot/vmlinuz.suse label = suse root = /dev/hdc3 initrd = /boot/initrd.suse # other = /dev/hda1 label = windows _____________________________________________________ It is quite harmless to test different variations in both fstab and lilo.conf as long as you run lilo from a terminal afterwards, it will tell you if there's something wrong in fstab. And you should of course first save a copy of the files before making any changes at all. Good luck, ei -- @~~ EagleIce ~ gnu4u@linux.nu ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux & KDE ~~@
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