On Monday 28 May 2001 15:50, Olaf Stetzer wrote: > Since 5 weeks after updating some packages from unstable (including > lilo and mbr) I am no longer able to boot my laptop from hdd!! :-(
I have CC'd this message to the MBR maintainer in case they are not subscribed to this list. > After some investigations I found that lilo may be incompatible with > SystemSonft Bioses and so I tried to use boot-compat.b instead of > boot.b . OK. However I notice that you are putting the boot sector on /dev/hda2 which suggests to me that the use of boot.b or boot-compat.b will not make any differance. I believe that boot-compat.b only helps you if you have boot=/dev/hda , although having never tested that code I can not be certain... If you have boot=/dev/hda then I think it is likely to work. In your situation I doubt that there is a reason to use the Debian-mbr that is compelling enough for you to do otherwise. BTW I would prefer if it you CC'd me on all Debian-lilo issues, and I think it would be beneficial to CC manty on all Debian-mbr issues. > I tried a lot of different settings in lilo.conf but without sucess.... > Just some additional infos that might help: > The problem startet with lilo hanging after LIL- > I then reran a newer version of lilo and then even this message > disappeared, now only the bios message which asks for a system > disk to be inserted is displayed. I even tried to run install-mbr > with different options still without success!!! > > Heres is my lilo.conf and partition-table: > > boot=/dev/hda2 > root=/dev/hda4 > # This file was created automatically by liloconfig > # Automatic creation, will do it every time > # run dpkg-reconfigure lilo if you want to change the way this operates > install=/boot/boot-compat.b > delay=20 > map=/boot/map > vga=normal > lba32 > read-only > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=Linux > other=/boot/vmlinuz.old > label=OLD-Linux > > > > Disk Drive: /dev/hda > Size: 6007357440 bytes > Heads: 240 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 776 > > Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size(MB) > ------------------------------------------------------ > Unusable > 7.75 hda1 Primary OS/2 hidden C: drive 286.44 > hda2 Boot Primary Linux ext2 7.75 > hda3 Primary Linux swap 100.64 > hda4 Primary Linux ext2 5604.81 -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
