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"
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.
