Anne Wilson wrote:
After installing 9.0 on my second hdd I was not getting a choice at lilo stage. Following advice I re-wrote lilo from the CD1 of 9.0 This was a really bad idea. It reinstalled my boot loaded for 8.2, and now I'm stuck in 8.2 with a perfectly good 9.0 installation inaccessible.Don't you have a windblows partition ?
I have re-written lilo to what it was originally, like this:
map=/boot/map
default=linux
keytable=/boot/uk.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
ignore-table
disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hdf1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi nobiospnp"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hdf1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/hde1
label=windows
table=/dev/hde
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe
What is stopping this working? Is it that map=/boot/map line - the map being overwritten? There must be a way out of this.
How do I get back to 9.0 without re-installing? I'm devastated.
Anne
If so, then first entry should be ,
boot=/dev/hda , ( says to boot from your mbr lilo, hense no hda number)
then
map=/boot/map etc etc,
also it may be correct, but I don't understand it,
what is disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80, I don't have any
such entry in mine.
You don't have to reinstall, it's a question of getting your
lilo entries right. And if you want to ensure you use the correct
/etc/lilo.conf script , remember you have the choice to use, either
M8.2, or M9.0 's lilo.conf depending on which CD1 you repair with.
So, M9.0's CD1 repair will set up reading from M9.0's /etc/lilo.conf
whereas M8.2's CD1 will read from M8.2's /etc/lilo.conf.
When setting up these lilo enties it is best to begin the exercise
by printing off one set of /etc/lilo.conf enties, then make
the necessary alterations for the new stanza's , this way you mind is
prepared in advance as to what the new stanzas will look like.It is
all to easy to leave something out, or make a typo. Keep this by
you in some file, and refer to it when making changes.
John
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