On Son, 20 Feb 2000, Andreas M�ller wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've installed Air, and I'm able to boot from a floppy disk. Then I tried to
>use LILO. It always worked for me the way I did it before, but with air
>something's going wrong. I did not chnge anything in /etc/lilo.conf, just
>started lilo. My lilo.conf looks like this:
>
>vga=0x0f02
>default=linux
>keytable=/boot/de-latin1.klt
>compact
>message=/boot/message
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-secure
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sda5
> initrd=/boot/initrd-secure.img
> append=""
> read-only
>image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=linux-up
> root=/dev/sda5
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> append=""
> read-only
>
>
>Then I only dumped the boot.sector to my booting partition with:
>
>dd if=/dev/sda5 of=/mnt/DOS_sda3/boot.lnx bs=512 count=1
>
>Now, when trying to boot with the NT-Bootloader I only get LI and all stops.
>What is wrong here? Can someone help? Then another question: What is the
>difference between the two kernels supplied vmlinuz-secure and vmlinuz?
>
Perhaps is the kernel behond the 1024 border on your disk....
Hmm - mustn't there be a "boot=/dev/sda5" entry in your lilo.conf, just to be
sure that your boot block _is_ on sda5?
-Cajus
