On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Rob Shugg wrote:
> Guys
> Im having trouble with lilo on a RH 6.1 install. Its a 2.1G(C/H/S =
> 4092/16/63) drive so I have a small /boot partition /dev/hda1.
> the RH install didn't set any partitions as bootable so i fixed this with
> fdisk after booting off the floppy.
> this gave me a curious "device in use" message but did seem to set the
> partition as bootable.
> here is the partition table.
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
That doesn't match what you say above, and what you are trying to force in
lilo below. I'd get rid of the bio,cyl,head,sectors settings in lilo.conf
and try again.
> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 9 18112+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 10 1023 2044224 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 10 42 66496+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda6 43 1023 1977664+ 83 Linux
>
>
>
> I have tried every combination of lilo.conf I can think of including boot =
> /dev/hda, linear, and this one:
>
> boot = /dev/hda1
> timeout = 10
> prompt
> disk = /dev/hda
> bios = 0x80
> sectors = 63
> heads = 16
> cylinders = 4092
> default = linux
> vga = normal
> read-only
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
> label = linux
> initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
> root = /dev/hda6
>
>
> any ideas?
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