(following up on myself and on an ancient posting, too. Just for the sake of completeness and the search-egines in case someone else experiences such a problem)
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 00:06:24 +0200, Robert Waldner writes:
>I have a machine with a large IDE-disk (hda) and a smaller, but also
> faster SCSI-disk (sda). So the system resides on SCSI, bulk data on
> IDE. So far, so good. But I can´t, for whatever reason, just boot
> completely from the SCSI-disk, so I installed the MBR on the IDE one.
>
>boot=/dev/hda
>root=/dev/sda7
>
>There is a small /boot-partition on sda1, also.
<...>
>When I try to boot from the disk, all I get after the lilo-prompt is
> Error 0x01
> Unable to load Linux
> Error 0x01
> <repeat>
I´ve given the problem a new shot and, lo! behold!, got it.
There was a "compact"-line in lilo.conf, which works with kernel 2.2.18
but *not* 2.2.19 in that setup. Don´t ask me why, but that did it.
>From lilo.conf(5) I´d not guessed that that could pose any problem when
just upgrading the kernel.
compact
Tries to merge read requests for adjacent sectors
into a single read request. This drastically
reduces load time and keeps the map smaller. Using
`compact' is especially recommended when booting
from a floppy disk.
cheers,
&rw
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