[olug] Still no luck

Gary mescie at cox.net
Sun Apr 21 00:17:39 UTC 2002


I don't know what happened but I changed boot=/dev/hdb1  to boot=/dev/hda in my
lilo.conf ran /sbin/lilo and rebooted and I got  the lilo prompt
so I choose to boot windows but it just hands after it says  loading windows,I
then booted into DOS with my rescue disk and fdisk says my windows HD is no
longer a FAT 32 drive.Anyone have any idea what might have happened?

                        Gary


Jordan Wilberding wrote:

> Sory, I should really read your whole email before I respond next time.
>
> Open /etc/lilo.conf with some kind of text editor
> change boot=/dev/hdb1 to boot=/dev/hda
>
> Save the file, then run /sbin/lilo from the command line(you will need to be
> a super user)
>
> > On Saturday 20 April 2002 18:48, you wrote:
> > Try boot=/dev/hda
> >
> > > On Saturday 20 April 2002 18:37, you wrote:
> > > Here's my lilo.conf file>
> > > boot=/dev/hdb1
> > > map=/boot/map
> > > install=/boot/boot.b
> > > vga=normal
> > > default=windows
> > > keytable=/boot/us.klt
> > > lba32
> > > prompt
> > > timeout=150
> > > message=/boot/message
> > > menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> > > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > >         label=linux
> > >         root=/dev/hdb5
> > >         append=" hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet"
> > >         vga=788
> > >         read-only
> > > other=/dev/hda1
> > >         label=windows
> > >         table=/dev/hda
> > >         map-drive=0x80
> > >            to=0x81
> > >         map-drive=0x81
> > > /etc/lilo.conf lines 1-23/27 88%
> > > I'm not real good at lilo but it appears as tho it's installing to
> > > /dev/hdb1 from looking at my lilo.conf file,I installed it there because
> > > that's where my /boot partition was,when I installed linux it gave me a
> > > list that included the default /dev/hda or /dev/hdb1 where I put it.I
> > > don't know how to choose where to install it after the install,would I
> > > just designate lilo /dev/hda or would I just edit the /dev/hdb1 to
> > > /dev/hda in my lilo.conf file?
> > >
> > >                     Gary
> > >
> > > Brian Roberson wrote:
> > > > Where are you installing lilo? on the MBR? hopefully on /dev/hda ...
> > > > can we all see your lilo.conf please?
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Jim Beam" <mescie at cox.net>
> > > > To: "OLUG" <olug at olug.org>
> > > > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 5:30 PM
> > > > Subject: [olug] Still no luck
> > > >
> > > > > think that's where I reinstalled my mandrake linux and made a /boot
> > > > > partition of 15 Mb at the begining of the drive and it still don't
> > > > > work.I get this message when I run lilo on the command line >Warning:
> > > > > /dev/hdb1 is not on the first disk
> > > > > Added linuxI
> > > > > Added windows *
> > > > > Added floppy
> > > > > When I checked fdisk in windows it just recognized my windows HD but
> > > > > not the linux drive.I think that's where my problem lies.I've messed
> > > > > with it off    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> > > > > /dev/hda1             1       700   5622718+  1b  Hidden Win95 FAT32
> > > > > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2434.
> > > > > There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> > > > > and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> > > > > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
> > > > > 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> > > > >    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> > > > > Then the "p" command>
> > > > > /dev/hdb1   *         1         2     16033+  83  Linux
> > > > > /dev/hdb2             3      1346  10795680    5  Extended
> > > > > /dev/hdb5             3        21    152586   83  Linux
> > > > > /dev/hdb6            22        52    248976   83  Linux
> > > > > /dev/hdb7            53        83    248976   83  Linux
> > > > > /dev/hdb8            84      1330  10016496   83  Linux
> > > > > /dev/hdb9          1331      1346    128488+  82  Linux swap
> > > > > I have no idea what that extended partition is or how to get rid of
> > > > > it.Just for the heck of it I installed System Commander (partition
> > > > > magic)
> > > > > and it booted both windoze and linux just fine.To say I'm confused is
> > > > > an understatement....lol.Does anyone have any idea what's going on
> > > > > and how I might fix it?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >                        Thanks,Gary
> > > > >
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