Re: Can not Install LILO on the MBR

[dony]

Try Redhat 7.0. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennings, Richard R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 9:15 PM Subject: FW: Can not Install LILO on the MBR > Oops, > Forgot to CC the rtlinux list. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jennings, Richard R > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 7:13 AM > To: 'Mukaila olundegun' > Subject: RE: Can not Install LILO on the MBR > > > Hi Mukaila, > Sorry to bring you the bad news, but you cannot boot from a RAID array. > We have a six disk array and had to configure one OUT of the array to > boot RH 6.2. The other method is use a boot floppy (quite slow) or > another disk that will show up BEFORE the RAID array. We tried > using another disk to boot from but we could not get disk to show > up BEFORE the RAID controller. We have the Adaptec 2940UW > and Megaraid RAID controller combination. > > If I'm wrong here, someone please correct me. I would be happy > to be able to boot from our RAID array. > > Hope this helps. > > Regards, > Rich > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Richard R. Jennings > Embedded Software Engineer - The Boeing Company > Flight Simulation Technology / Advanced Avionics Center - St. Louis > Computational & Image Generation Group > (314)234-0460 FAX (314)232-7972 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mukaila olundegun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 10:25 PM > To: RTLinux mailing list > Subject: Can not Install LILO on the MBR > > > Hello Everyone, > > > On my box I have the following spec. > > 2* 81GByte HDD (configured for RAID1 mirroring) > 1 DVD (IDE) > 1 CDROM > 2*800MHzPENTIUM III CPU (Linux detect both and built linux.smp and linux-up) > Motherboard RIOWORKS has onboard RAID controller but not used. > Linux Distribution RedHart ver 6.2 > Disk partition: Root(/) Boot(/boot) home(/home)..etc. All with Raid1 > configuration except swap disk. > > My problem is I can not install LILO on the MBR. It turns gray and can not > be selected during insation. When I restart I have only "LI" display and the > system stops. > > My question is, is there a limit for the HDD (81GB) that is preventing the > installation? Or have I missed something somewhere? > > I made a boot disk (floppy disk) which I am using currently. I have no > problem with the boot disk nor the system itself. > > Any help will be appreciated > > Mukaila