Sorry for the double post - I hit the "send" a bit too fast before I realized I had
the other attachment.
Per your request - the lilo.conf reflects the changes I made manually as
mentioned below.
Cheers,
R.Fox
On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 22:22, Pixel wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Fox) writes:
>
> > Speaking of which, on my Asus A7V based machine - I have the Mandrake
> > Linux loaded under the /dev/hde (promise controller) and I also have
> > extra ReiserFS partitions on a spare (/dev/hda) drive. After a fresh
> > install of Mandrake, the system will not boot from the /dev/hde
> > partition and I have to boot in rescue mode, edit lilo.conf and add the
> > following:
> >
> > disk=/dev/hde
> > bios=0x80
> > disk/dev/hda
> > bios=0x81
>
> [...]
>
> > Question is, why can't the DrakX install catch this and automatically do
> > this for me?
>
> i wonder about this too :)
>
> now, i really don't understand why it didn't do it.
>
> what is your "boot=" line? or even better, give the whole lilo.conf + fstab.
>
>
/dev/hde6 / reiserfs notail 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hde7 /home reiserfs notail 1 2
/dev/hda2 /mnt/backup reiserfs defaults 1 2
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1
0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/hd reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hde1 /mnt/win_c vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hde5 /mnt/win_d vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hde9 /mnt/win_e vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hde10 /mnt/win_f vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hde11 /mnt/win_g vfat defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hde8 swap swap defaults 0 0
boot=/dev/hde6
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
disk=/dev/hde
bios=0x80
disk=/dev/hda
bios=0x81
lba32
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hde6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="quiet devfs=mount hdg=ide-scsi mem=nopentium"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux-nonfb
root=/dev/hde6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdg=ide-scsi mem=nopentium"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17-10mdk
label=linux-2.4.17-10
root=/dev/hde6
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.17-10mdk.img
append="quiet devfs=mount hdg=ide-scsi mem=nopentium"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hde6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe devfs=mount hdg=ide-scsi mem=nopentium"
read-only
other=/dev/hde1
label=windows
table=/dev/hde
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe
