According to David Crowell: While burning my CPU.
>
> I am on my third install of Red Hat 5.1 (don't ask). It was going
> fine, they've all been pretty painless, but this time when I hit enter
> to install LILO the system crashed. I was able to boot Linux with my
> boot floppy. Now I'm trying to build a lilo.conf file from scratch.
> This is what I've done, using O'Reilly and the Linux Manual:
>
> boot = /dev/hda
> compact
> install = /boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> map=/boot/map
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34-0.6
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hdb1
> vga=normal
> other=/dev/hda1
> table=/dev/hda
> label=dos
> append="memm=128M"
Firstly the order of events is not as it should be;
boot=/dev/hdb
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
append="mem=128M"
#
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34-0.6
label=linux
root=/dev/hdb1
read-only
#
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
The append statement has 2 m's use only 1.
Normaly all "options" are stated before you define "images".
Note the "boot=/dev/hdb" not /dev/hda in your case you say you have windoze
on /dev/hda...
Now what does it all mean.?
For a quick answer read the manual page for "lilo.conf" it is very
explanatry.
On another note, when linux is installed but things dont seem correct,
ie in your case LILO wont work, there is NO need to Reinstall for ANY
reason. period.
Good configuration is the answer here, which you could have done in the
install program from whatever distribution is used.
>
> I'm the first to admit I don't know what I'm doing here, yet. The
> system boots with this config, to a point: I get a message about unable
> to start a console. I have Win 98 on hda1, a 500 meg disk, and
> everything Linux is on the 7 gig and 2 other smaller disks. I think the
> boot sector for Linux is on hdb1, but I'm not sure Disk Druid left it
> there, nor do I know enough how to find out exactly where it is. Is
> this making any sense? Can anyone help? Thanks.
>
Yes it all makes sense, its just the way you are tying to configure lilo
which is incorrect.
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Regards Richard.
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