Re: "LI" for LILO or loading from a second harddrive

2000-01-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: "LI" for LILO or loading from a second harddrive Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 04:42:29PM +0100 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| LILO can only boot Opertive Systems located in primary partitions >| (max 4

Re: "LI" for LILO or loading from a second harddrive

2000-01-10 Thread Howard Mann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > LILO can only boot Opertive Systems located in primary partitions > (max 4) and located in the first hard drive that usually is "/dev/hda ". > > Bye bye. This is not correct as stated. Here is an informative item : http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/12/166/ I quot

Re: "LI" for LILO or loading from a second harddrive

2000-01-10 Thread lorenzo . zampese
y Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Peter Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10/01/2000 12.35.04 GMT 10/01/2000 15.49.36 Subject: Re: "LI" for LILO or loading from a second harddrive - Memo - Message

Re: "LI" for LILO or loading from a second harddrive

2000-01-10 Thread Peter Ross
On 08-Jan-2000, Bryan Scaringe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lilo must be installed in the MBR of /dev/hda. That is where your BIOS > looks to boot your system. change your boot" line to look like: > boot=/dev/hda > > This will install LILO in the MBR of /dev/hda. > > LILO can *boot* things pr

RE: "LI" for LILO or loading from a second harddrive

2000-01-09 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Lilo must be installed in the MBR of /dev/hda. That is where your BIOS looks to boot your system. change your boot" line to look like: boot=/dev/hda This will install LILO in the MBR of /dev/hda. LILO can *boot* things pretty much anywhere in your system (like /dev/hdc1) but it must be locate

"LI" for LILO or loading from a second harddrive

2000-01-08 Thread Arcady Genkin
I've installed potato on the second harddrive. Lilo won't boot from the HD (hangs at "LI" prompt). I can boot from the boot floppy just fine. My lilo.conf and the disk layout are quoted below. I tried adding "linear" and "compact" (interchangeably) to lilo.conf, as well as changing line "boot=/dev