Kevin, Thanks for your response. Yes, I have rerun LILO several times. I made a boot floppy, but the system doesn't even try to boot from the floppy, going to the CD-ROM first, and Gateway's BIOS Setup doesn't even have a way to tell it "Floppy first."
Charlie On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 16:56, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 17:26, Charles Wilkins wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I am installing a dual-boot Linux/Win2K machine for a graduate student > > at the University I work at and I am having a major problem with LILO. > > The machine is a Gateway2000 E-4200. I have woody installed on > > /dev/hdb with /dev/hdb2 as the root of the filesystemand /dev/hdb1 as > > the /boot partition. Windows 2000 is installed on /dev/hda1. I have > > the LILO bootstrapper installed in the MBR of /dev/hda. The > > /etc/lilo.conf is unchanged from what debconf set up during installation. > > > > What happens when I try to boot the system is this ... nothing at all. > > The POST runs the screen blanks and the cursor sits flashing in the > > upper left-hand corner of the screen. I have used dd to copy the MBR of > > /dev/hda to a file, looked at it with ghex, and it appears to be a valid > > LILO bootstrap program. > > > > My question is this ... does anyone have any experience with > > dual-booting on the Gateway E-4200? Does anyone know if the ROM-BIOS on > > that machine supports booting off of anything but BIOS Device 0x80 > > (Primary Master IDE device)? I have pored over the Dual-Boot-HOWTOs and > > even compared /etc/lilo.conf to the /etc/lilo.conf on my sarge box at > > home (dual-boot Debian testing/Win95), all to no avail. The system > > boots up just fine using my Debian CD1 with "rescue root=/dev/hdb2" > > typed in at the "boot:" prompt, so it doesn't appear to be > > filesystem-related. It just appears that the system is refusing to run > > the bootstrapper for LILO. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > ninewands > Have you tried running lilo again? > Have you tried using mkbook to create a boot disk.? > -- > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Work like you don't need the money, Dance like no one is watching, Love like you've never been hurt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
