On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 14:08, David B. Harris wrote:
> To quote Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> # Reaches everywhere on my 30G disk partitioned like so:
> # <snip>
> # That is, all 4 partitions are bootable via lilo.
>
> Hmm... Try putting a kernel on the last partition, and then get LILO to
> boot from it. If it works, would you mind sharing your lilo.conf?
As luck would have it, there _IS_ a kernel on /dev/hdc4. Here is my
lilo.conf, comments and blank lines stripped, and then blank lines
inserted for legibility:
lba32
boot=/dev/hda
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
prompt
delay=100
timeout=100
vga=normal
default=potato
image=/boot/potato/vmlinuz-2.2.17
root=/dev/hdc3
label=potato
read-only
image=/boot/potato/vmlinuz-2.2.17-old
root=/dev/hdc3
label=potato-old
read-only
image=/boot/rescue/vmlinuz-2.2.17
root=/dev/hda3
label=rescue
read-only
image=/mnt/boot/rescue/vmlinuz-2.2.17-compact
root=/dev/hdc4
label=rescueOLD
read-only
optional
other=/dev/hdc2
label=bsd
table=/dev/hdc
other =/dev/hda4
label=win95
table=/dev/hda
Here are the disk partitions:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 5 40131 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 6 38 265072+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 39 169 1052257+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 * 170 1027 6891885 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdc1 1 14899 7509064+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc2 14900 29799 7509600 a6 OpenBSD
/dev/hdc3 29800 44699 7509600 83 Linux
/dev/hdc4 44700 59598 7509096 83 Linux
And here is /etc/fstab from /dev/hdc4 (note that both swap and the
separate boot partition are commented out):
/dev/hdc4 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
#/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0
#/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 2
OK, I just mounted /dev/hdc4 on /mnt, ran lilo using the lilo.conf file
above, and booted rescueOLD. Here is the output of mount:
/dev/hdc4 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
Voila!
Luck,
Pann
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