Re: [LUG] lilo.conf problems

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Melhuish wrote:

> Something obviously needs to be done about this, as I have had similar 
> problems and so have both my two linux recruits; you change the location of 
> the boot disk and the whole thing falls to peices :-(
>
> Anyway, we are trying to swap the drives that are currently on the primary IDE 
> channel (DVD, CD-RW) with those on the secondary channel (both hard drives), 
> in an effort to get the CD burner working under linux, such that it looks 
> like this:
>
> Primary IDE master: Linux boot disk
> Primary IDE slave: Windows disk
> Secondary IDE master: CD-RW
> Secondary IDE slave: DVD-ROM
>
> So would somebody point out to me what I've forgotten in lilo.conf, because 
> I'm obviously going blind (or braindead)!
>
> _________________________________________
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> vga=normal
> default=:-)Linux!!
> keytable=/boot/fr-latin1.klt
> prompt
> nowarn
> timeout=160
> message=/boot/message
> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> 	label=:-)Linux!!
> 	root=/dev/hda6
> 	initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> 	append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
> 	read-only
> _________________________________________
>
> Which works fine... with the hard disk on the secondary master (hdc)!
>
> Wierd... what are we doing wrong?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jon
>
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Has the new hdd had it's boot partition marked (fdisk.. option A iirc)

Just an idea (yeah i fell in to that trap...)

Neil


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