Re: LILO and two disks...

[Mike Wood]

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, John Carter wrote:

> Greetings Debians,
> 
> I have got LILO up an working on 3 different PC's no problem.
> 
> But this one gets me totally bamfoozled
> 
> Its quite simple. The guy has two hardisks in his PC. The PC is brand
> new with latest and greatest bios that knows about LBA etc.
> 
> WinNT is on /dev/hda1, Linux is on /dev/hdc3.
> 
> I install lilo with any and every lilo.conf concievable (including the
> one attached below), I reboot and it just comes back and says "L".
> 
> Any working examples of lilo.conf files for systems with two disks and
> linux on the second drive would be most welcome.
You know I've had the same problem for 2 years now.  I've never
found a way around it.  What kind of motherboard are you using?  Or in
particular what kind of IDE chipset do you have.  I've found this problem
to only happen when I have 2 IDE disks in.  Currently I have 3 SCSI
drives and 1 IDE.  The 'L' problem only happens when I install another
IDE drive as hd[bcd].  I tried the FreeBSD bootloader and it worked fine
so I know it's some sort of LILO problem.  Over the years I've tried every
imaginable LILO config that I could think of.  If you come across any
solution I would love to hear about it.


Mike Wood

Re: LILO and two disks...

[wb2oyc]

John,

If I were you, I'd get that "linear" attribute outta there!
Try it.

Paul

Re: LILO and two disks...

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 11:50:28AM +, John Carter wrote:
> I have got LILO up an working on 3 different PC's no problem.
> But this one gets me totally bamfoozled
> 
> Its quite simple. The guy has two hardisks in his PC. The PC is brand
> new with latest and greatest bios that knows about LBA etc.
> 
> WinNT is on /dev/hda1, Linux is on /dev/hdc3.

LILO needs BIOS-level access to hdc3. Perhaps this doesn't work on that
system. Does /sbin/lilo give any warnings when you run it?

I suggest that you get BOOTPART, and let the NT boot manager run
first. When you pick Linux from the boot menu, the boot sector
stuff installed by BOOTPART will let you boot Linux. I have Debian
on hdb5 here and I use the NT loader first.


Hamish
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LILO and two disks...

[John Carter]

Greetings Debians,

I have got LILO up an working on 3 different PC's no problem.

But this one gets me totally bamfoozled

Its quite simple. The guy has two hardisks in his PC. The PC is brand
new with latest and greatest bios that knows about LBA etc.

WinNT is on /dev/hda1, Linux is on /dev/hdc3.

I install lilo with any and every lilo.conf concievable (including the
one attached below), I reboot and it just comes back and says "L".

Any working examples of lilo.conf files for systems with two disks and
linux on the second drive would be most welcome.

I'm using debian V2.0.

Thank you,


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boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hdc3
# Generated by liloconfig
linear
prompt
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
image=/linux-2.2.0-p8
label=linux
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