On Tuesday 05 Feb 2002 10:29, Pixel wrote:
> 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?
>
I'm using Acronis OS Selector, which recognises:
hde as Disk 1
hdf as Disk 2
hdg as Disk 3
hdh as Disk 4
sda as Disk 5
... in the same way Partition Magic used to.
> 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"?
With "disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80" I just see "LI" on boot.
With "disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80" commented out I get a screenful of "40"s
--
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 23 minutes.
