Did you tag the Drive/partition you want to boot as active?
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Well it sounds like LILO is trying to boot from the wrong partition. Or,
> perhaps the kernel is loading but the "root" device is wrong. I'm guessing
> this is the case since I wouldn't expect very elaborate messages such as you
> site below from LILO. When you get to where LILO prints hit scroll-lock to get
> the prompt and type:
>
> Linux root=/dev/hda1
>
> where 'Linux' is the name of your linux image (if you don't know what the name
> of the image is you can hit TAB at the prompt to get a list of images) and
> /dev/hda1 is the device path of your root partition. Once you get booted up
> look at your /etc/lilo.conf file. There should be a 'root=...' line in it
> which is probably incorrect.
>
> As to the BIOS detection, it probably still wants to find two drives. Go into
> the BIOS setup and tell it there's no secondary drive and it'll be happy.
>
> Ian Keith Setford wrote:
>
> > Yo-
> >
> > I recently removed my Windows drive from a machine that runs Debian 95%
> > of the time. The previous arrangement was as follows:
> > /dev/hda Windows (master primary controller)
> > /dev/hdb Debian (slave primary controller)
> > /dev/hdc CD-ROM (master secondary controller)
> >
> > I removed /dev/hda (Windows) and switched the Debian drive cable and
> > set the jumper to master. I *thought* I was thinking ahead when I
> > re-configured LILO to boot from the actual Linux drive instead of from the
> > boot sector on the Windows drive. I ran /sbin/lilo and I also configured
> > fstab before I physically removed the drive.
> >
> > After removal Linux will not boot. The BIOS detection of the HDD also
> > takes about 2 minutes whereas previously it took about 5-10 seconds.
> > Debian error says, "DMA reset, irq timeout {SEEK ... SEEK ... }' etc..
> >
> > I am unsure of what is actually wrong. I also booted with a rescue disk
> > and a boot disk but both will die with error, "Unable to open Initial
> > Console."
>
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