On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:

> 
> Update: what was making mkbootdisk hang was the mke2fs invocation, which was
> complaining about /dev/hdb (it was babbling about:)
> 
> mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> /dev/hdb is entire device, not just one partition!
> Proceed anyway? (y,n)
> 
> Obviously, in batch mode, it's never going to finish :(  I tried doing
> fdisk on the floppy and then using /dev/hdb1, and the errors went away.
> However on boot, it hangs at 'LI'.
 
Cool, now just figure out what bios disk it is and which it thinks it is
and you should be set.

man lilo.conf 
/disk=

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