----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 6:11 PM Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install
> Scott MacMaster wrote: > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:35 PM > >Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install > > > > > > > > > >>Scott MacMaster wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>>>I was able to view the contents of lilo.conf. Here are the contents > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>lba32 > >>>>>boot=/dev/hdb1 > >>>>>root=/dev/hdb1 > >>>>>install=/boot/boot-menu.b > >>>>>map=/boot/map > >>>>>delay=20 > >>>>>vga=normal > >>>>>default=Linux > >>>>>image=/vmlinuz > >>>>> label=Linux > >>>>> read-only > >>>>>image=/vmlinuz.old > >>>>> label=LinuxOLD > >>>>> read-only > >>>>> optional > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>This is the output lilo gives: > >>> > >>>Warning: /dev/hdb1 is not on the first disk > >>>Added Linux * > >>>Skipping /vmlinuz.old > >>> > >>>However, it still doesn't work. After the screen goes blank this is the > >>>output I get (when I try to boot off the hd). > >>> > >>>MBR > >>> > >>>L 01 01 01... > >>>01 01 01... > >>>01 01 01... > >>>01 01 01... > >>>. > >>>. > >>>. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>Try changing the line: > >> > >>boot=/dev/hdb1 > >> > >>to > >>boot=/dev/hdb > >> > >>and rerun lilo. > >> > >> > > > >This didn't work. I got the same results as before, except it's displaying > >40 instead of 01. > > > > > > > Can your BIOS boot off the slave of the primary controller? I assume it > can, since you're getting partial results, but still, had to ask. I have booted off my second hard drive in the past. I don't recall if it was with this hard drive and motherboard or not. I've long since switched to booting my second os from a boot floppy. I found it quicker and simpler. > Has this disk every been "infected" with any non-standard boot loaders, > like a boot sector virus, or like Bootworks (from Altiris), etc? If this was the hard drive I had booted from in the past then there was a differant boot loader on it at one time. If it's ever had a boot sector virus I don't know about it. > You might try "install-mbr /dev/hdb", although I don't really understand > the ins-and-outs of this utility (see "man install-mbr"), so I'm not > sure what the result will be. Still, I'd try it. This seemed to have no effect. After looking through the man I found an option that I can use to specify bootable partition. I tried using that option but it also had no effects. Any other thoughts? Thanks, Scott MacMaster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
