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 located where the BIOS looks (generally the boot sector of your first floopy drive, or the MBR of your first Hard disk. Bryan On 08-Jan-2000 Arcady Genkin wrote: > 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/hdc" for "boot=/dev/hdc1", but the problem is > still the same. > > FWIW, I'm using a third-party multybooter (BootMagic), but it picks > out Linux installation on the second drive just fine. Also, since LILO > does get started, I assume that the problem is with my LILO > configuration, rather than with the mutlibooter's. > > I belive that during installation I chose to install lilo into MBR on > /dev/hdc. > > The drive is an IBM's 13G, connected as an only drive on secondary IDE > controller. Root is a primary partition in the very beginning of the > drive, and is only 100M big. > > I'm stuck not being able to use custom kernel. :^( Any input greately > appreciated! > > ,----[ "mount" output ] >| /dev/hdc1 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro) >| /dev/hdc5 on /tmp type ext2 (rw) >| /dev/hdc6 on /var type ext2 (rw) >| /dev/hdc4 on /usr type ext2 (rw) >| /dev/hda5 on /mnt/slink_local type ext2 (rw) >| /dev/hda4 on /mnt/slink_root type ext2 (rw) >| proc on /proc type proc (rw) > `---- > ,----[ lilo.conf ] >| boot=/dev/hdc >| root=/dev/hdc1 >| install=/boot/boot.b >| map=/boot/map >| delay=200 >| vga=normal >| >| image=/vmlinuz >| label=default >| read-only >| >| image = /zImage >| label = linux >| read-only > `---- > > -- > Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
