If the other drive was hanging the IDE bus then lilo would never have gotten
far enough to give the "LI" part of the prompt. More likely the geometry of
this new drive is causing lilo to have a heart attack. Therefore
eliminating lilo should eliminate the problem. lilo absolutely does care
about another drive being added to the system, and this is the part that
happens right after the I is output to the console.
Here is what the docs say:
LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot
loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a
geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map
installer.
Since the first stage boot loader ran, it is unlikely that the IDE bus is
being frozen by the second drive, or else it would freeze it during the
initial POSTing by the BIOS, not after lilo had already been read into
memory from the drive.
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Warren Melnick
Director of Research and Development
Astata Corporation
-----Original Message-----
From: Vidiot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 2:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: second IDE drive causes the "LI" boot hang
>You are changing the system geometry in a way that lilo does not like. Try
>writing your boot kernel out to a floppy (dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0) and
>booting directly off of that rather than through lilo. Often this helps.
LILO could care less about another drive being added to the system. All
it cares about is being able to access the drive it is pointed at for
booting. If the other drive hangs the IDE bus, nothing is going to boot.
I had no trouble adding another drive to my system and booting. The kernel
saw the new drive and had no trouble with it either. I just ran fdisk on
it to get the partitioning I wanted, transferred the data from one drive to
another, changed fstab and rebooted the new configuration. No LILO change,
no nothing along that route.
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