On Friday 07 March 2003 09:33 pm, Gary Hodder wrote: > Hi Mark, > > with the 3 drives in and it boots normally, edit the fstab file and > change the hdc? to hdb? > ? being the partition number. > Change lilo to be hdb instead of hdc. > Reboot with a floppy, at lilo promp: linux root=/dev/hdb? > ? being the partition number the os is on. > Run lilo. > Reboot to boot from kernel on harddrive. > > Gary. and next time, don't use "cable select" as the way to choice master and slave HDs, use the jumpers on the drive itself.
> > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 22:19, Mark Watts wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a system with 3 harddrives in it (hda = Windows, hdb = spare (part > > XFS, part FAT32) and hdc = Linux (resierfs). > > I installed Windows first, followed by 9.0 on hdc, and chose to install > > lilo to hda's boot sector. > > This has been working just fine since I installed. > > I've come to a point where I'm moving hdb out of the system... > > Whenever I remove it, I get the ubiquitos LI LI LI LI LI across the > > screen, indicating that lilo is toast. Putting the drive back makes > > everything work as before. > > > > 2 questions: > > > > 1) Should lilo really be doing this, bearing in mind that hdb isnt > > mentioned in lilo.conf (It has an old 8.2 install I havent removed yet on > > it, but I'd have to make a boot disk to boot from it). > > > > 2) If I re-reun lilo (from a rescue cd and chrooting stuff) without > > changing lilo.conf, will that fix the LI LI LI issue? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Mark. > > > > - -- > > Mark Watts > > Systems Engineer > > QinetiQ TIM > > St Andrews Road, Malvern > > GPG Public Key available on request. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQE+aIA5Bn4EFUVUIO0RAhuvAKCzIzCZDqFlr6+RWzdSEmrpglnB8QCgxetA > > gfpHOl0qRleNXs2VLEiSQcY= > > =wfFV > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > ---- > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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