Trevor
Your /etc/lilo.conf probably has boot=/dev/hdb......?
Where did you install lilo, in fact send me your lilo.conf and I'll
figure it out. With one linux boot partition, I can have lilo prompt
show just once in the boot sequence and it does not matter which drive I
put the linux partition. But with more than one disk having linux
partitions AND each having multiple boot options compiled into lilo then
you get two lilo prompts: one for the mbr which can also boot from the
primary linux partition and two for the secondary linux partition which
is located at the beginning of the hdbx, hdcx, or hddx partition where
you installed lilo on the other drives.
Otherwise how would you recompile lilo properly with 5 or 6 boot
partition located on a several disk drives, all of which can have
different mount points depending on which one is the currently booted
partition. Note that you can only have one statement in lilo.conf which
says boot=/dev/hdxx all the other partitions have to be called with
other=/dev/hdxx (or /dev/sdxx, or ...depending on your drive
configuration)
I have lilo on mbr of hda and hdb5 which is my 32MB /boot partition for
my experimental version which is redhat 6.2beta with all the kernelnotes
upgrades to compile the latest 2.3.51 kernels. hda has mandrake 7.0
which is very stable and I do not experiment very much with if because I
like to have one stable boot version that is usable.
Tom
Trevor Farrell wrote:
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> Tom Berkley wrote:
>
> >
> > I see the lilo prompt twice when I want to boot to the second drive but
> > that is normal for any linux boot from a drive other than the first
> > drive.
> >
>
> I have now seen several posts like this saying that it is nornal for two LILO prompts
> if you are booting Linux off a second drive, and am very puzzled, as I have always
> booted Linux off my second drive and have never seen two LILO prompts.
>
> My home system has Windows 95 on hda and a vfat partion as hdb1, as well as Linux on
> hdb. I have installed Redhat 5.2, 6, 6.1; Mandrake 6, 7; as well as Caldera and Suse
> distributions on this machine. None have given me 2 LILO prompts.
>
> Why is it so???
