Re: Help!! Getting LILO working?

1999-01-31 Thread Tim Heuser
Andrew Ivanov wrote: > Andrew Ivanov wrote: > > > > Any ideas on how to get LILO to work with this configuration? > > > Thanks in advance. > > > Tim > > > > And LILO will work with second drive. At least it works for me. > > Andrew > > > > Maybe a part of the puzzle is I have an old BIOS

Re: Help!! Getting LILO working?

1999-01-31 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Ok, here is hwo you should do it: boot = /dev/hda #Disk to boot (Master on primary IDE) root = /dev/hdb2 #Where root partition is install = /boot/boot.b map = /boot/map vga = normal delay = 50 prompt ramdisk = 0 read-only default = linux image = /vmlinuz#Linux kernel label = Debian

Re: Help!! Getting LILO working?

1999-01-31 Thread Tim Heuser
I did it and it is working. Thanks so much for your help! It didn't autoboot after running Lilo, but I did the three finget salute and it came back asking which to boot. Does something time out and load the default automatically at some point? It seems to just sit there waiting for someone to

Re: Help!! Getting LILO working?

1999-01-31 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Basicly, the line prompt should ask you which OS to boot. Take it out, and all you will be getting at boot will be: LILO, then pause, during which you can hit Alt/Ctrl/Tab and select OS to which to boot ( Just type in the label name), or can just wait 5 seconds and linux will boot automaticly.

Help!! Getting LILO working?

1999-01-30 Thread Tim Heuser
I've got Win98 set up on my first physical drive (about 760 megs) and Linux swap drive as the second logical drive (60 megs) on it also. On the second phyical drive (6.1 gig) I've got the first partition as fat32 (2 gig), then Linux boot (about 100meg), and Linux everything else takes up the

Re: Help!! Getting LILO working?

1999-01-30 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Any ideas on how to get LILO to work with this configuration? Thanks in advance. Tim Boot into debian with boot disk, and make a lilo.conf file to run with lilo. Or just send the cfdisk information (partitions for all disks), and I can write it for you. And LILO will work with second drive.

Re: Help!! Getting LILO working?

1999-01-30 Thread Tim Heuser
Andrew Ivanov wrote: Any ideas on how to get LILO to work with this configuration? Thanks in advance. Tim And LILO will work with second drive. At least it works for me. Andrew Maybe a part of the puzzle is I have an old BIOS (choises of A: and C: ?)

Re: Help!! Getting LILO working?

1999-01-30 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Andrew Ivanov wrote: Any ideas on how to get LILO to work with this configuration? Thanks in advance. Tim And LILO will work with second drive. At least it works for me. Andrew Maybe a part of the puzzle is I have an old BIOS (choises of A: and C: ?) I got an old bios as

Re: Help!! Getting LILO working?

1999-01-30 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Hi Andrew, I have my c drive as dev/hda1,2,3 and my d drive is dev/hdb1 -that is my windows drive but I also cannot get lilo to work. I would appreciate a lilo.conf which works posted to the list if possible. So we can review where we have gone wrong. cheers, Mike Ok, here is a sample