bascule....ok, now please see if all of the needed boot files
are actually there in the boot directory and if they're actual
files.
/boot/map
/boot/boot.b
/boot/uk.klt
/boot/message
/boot/vmlinuz
/boot/initrd.img
But I still think the best chance is to dual boot drom the IDE
drive.
Alan
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>
> i have tried the linear mode, i waited to see if anyone had any comment
> about possible data loss, in the end it didn't make any difference, i
> did try something that should have occured to me before and that was to
> disable ide and try to boot from scsi;
>
> an odd thing - instead of an instant reboot, i had the first l of lilo
> fillowed by a continuous screenful of '01's filling my screen!
> i got out of that pretty quick! it didn't look healthy but i can't seem
> to find anything wrong,
> i'm beginning to feel that i have some odd hardware thing that doesn't
> let me boot from scsi properly even though i could swear that it did it
> with win98 (when it first came out and i played with it while still
> keeping win95) if this is the case then this could be a horse well and
> truly flogged
>
> as for the number of partitions, history i guess, a combination of
> migrating from original win95 with fat16 and keeping cluster size down,
> having data that i wanted to backup all on seperate partitions, messing
> with NT and deciding that there just HAD to be a better way!, creating
> space in the extended partition when i wanted to install linux, keeping
> some back because you never know and plain old being irrational!
>
> from the fdisk ....p results i posted i see what you meant about
> partitions having creationdate info on, i can see the history of my
> partition manouevres matches the results now,
>
> i take your point about booting from ide but to explain an earlier
> comment, the last time i installed lilo to ide i than had a problem i'm
> not sure what but i lost all partition info for that drive and i had an
> effectively empty hard drive, a few screams and weeks later, the worlds
> smallest win95 istallation on the other drive(it was full, and now i
> remember how i know scsi boots win9x) major net searching and i had a
> few tools to try and recover my data, which i did, but it wasn't pretty,
> and to be honest until i've got my linux the way i want it i'm loathe to
> risk this scenario again ( i guess i was born an old man)
>
> besides there has always been a part of me that thinks 'if it should
> work, then i want to know why it doesn't' i think my grandfather was
> part terrier.
>
> /etc/fstab/ is here:
>
> /dev/hda2 /mnt/drivec vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /mnt/drivee vfat user,exec,conv=auto,umask=000 0 0
> /dev/hda6 /mnt/drivef vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
> /dev/sda4 /mnt/drived vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
> /dev/sda5 /mnt/driveg vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
> /dev/sda6 /mnt/driveh vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
> /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
> user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto,sync,unhide 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
> /dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
>
> bascule
>
> p.s. made D drive on scsi active, hid it, unhid it -no active partition
> on scsi drive -voila!
