Friend of mine recently installed Mandrake 8.0 onto his laptop. He now can't
get into his Win2K partition (which is important for school tommorow). This
is his current lilo.conf file.
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=50
message\/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=" devfs=mount"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=" devfs=mount failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=NT
table=/dev/hda
I then got him to try this lilo.conf (mine)
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=NT
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message-graphic
menu-scheme-wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=" hdc-ide-scsi quiet"
vga=788
read-only
...some stuff in the middle
other=/dev/hda1
label=NT
table=/dev/hda
When he runs lilo.. he gets:
Fatal: Can't put the boot sector on logical partition 0x305
I tried to think of him going into linuxconf and possibly switch to GRUB as a
temp. work around, but now he is getting an unending series of 40 40 40 40...
when he tries to get into linuxconf.
Ideas???
This is beyond my knowledge (especially since I'm remote from him..)
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