Two thoughts:
1. Did you edit lilo.conf correctly? You need to make two changes - both the
"boot=" and the "root=" lines need to change to hda1.
2. Check for the process /bin/login, making sure it is present and has the
right permissions. The failure you are describing sounds like whatever
*getty process you have on the console can't find the actual app login to
run when you try to log in.
3. Is the Linux hard disk all one big partition? If not, you'll need to
change other entries in /etc/fstab from /dev/hdb* to /dev/hda* (inserting
the appropriate numbers) as well as the hda1 choice.
4. This is improbable, but ... might you have too little memory? Since you
also run Win98, I doubt this, but if the drive switch caused you tro lose
your swap partition, that might be causing a problem.
If none of this works ... boot again from the floppy, mount the hard disk,
and take a look at your logs (in /mnt/var/log/) ... probably messages or
debug. See what the *getty process says is happening during the failed logins.
At 03:54 PM 9/27/99 -0400, Todd Felmly wrote:
>I think I really messed things up.
>
>My Slackware 96 system shared a drive with Windows 98. Windows was on
>/dev/hda1 and Linux was on /dev/hdb1. LILO was installed on hda1 and gave
>you the option to boot windows or linux. This all worked for years until I
>purchased a new machine to house my windows drive.
>
>After that machine was up and running I took the linux drive, switched
>jumpers so it was now the master, changed the bios to reflect the drive
>change, and booted from a boot floppy.
>
>I mounted the drive with "mount root=/dev/hda1", logged in as root, replaced
>/dev/hdb1 with hda1 in /etc/fstab, did the same with lilo.conf, ran lilo to
>update everything, ran linux fdisk and made hda1 my bootable drive.
>
>When I rebooted, everything looked good until fsck ran. It found a few
>errors and said it fixed them all. When the login screen appears, no matter
>how I login, I am never asked for a password and am simply given the login
>screen again after a pause of a few seconds.
>
>When I rebooted again, I kept getting a message that my drive could not be
>mounted read-write since it was already mounted that way. LILO does have a
>line that reads "read-only" in it.
>
>I made a root floppy and booted with that, mounted the hard drive and
>checked it out. Nothing is out of the ordinary. Running fsck reports no
>errors or problems.
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