Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
what is the bootloader you're using on hde? is it remapping drives?
you say you have hde, hdf, hdg, hdh and sda
so it makes
hde 0x80
hdf 0x81
hdg 0x82
hgh 0x83
sda 0x84
[...]
> disk=/dev/hdf bios=0x80
agreed, this is weird...
err, found a bug in my code. Next time it will be
disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80
as needed (is it?)
> 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.
hey, i need help. What is working??
Esp. is it working with "disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80"?
