Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020204 4:33
Can boot from floppy but not from hard disk. Using lilo.
/dev/hd{a,b,c,d} not fitted. Boot hdh1, root hdh5.
All I get from lilo on first boot is a screenful of what looks like 04.
So boot from floppy and run /sbin/lilo -v. No error messages but at boot
I see just LI.
lilo.conf...
boot=/dev/hdh1
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=791
default=linux
keytable=/boot/uk.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=100
disk=/dev/hdf bios=0x80
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hdh5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount mem=nopentium"
read-only
[...]
I couldn't understand why it said "disk=/dev/hdf bios=0x80", as I boot
8.1 from hdf1 with root on hdf5 - and lilo.conf for that says
"disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80". So I tried changing Cooker's to that and
reran lilo -- result is a screenful of rubbish again.
I have hde, hdf, hdg, hdh and sda for hard disks.
I'll have another look tomorrow but for the moment I'm baffled.
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Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. AMD Athlon XP 1600+, 512MB RAM.
Registered Linux User 219434. Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin)
Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin, XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk.
KDE: 2.2.2. Qt: 2.3.2. Up 1 hour 54 minutes.
