Lilo.conf posted in reply to a previous request, I boot off the mbr on hda. I'm happy
with
just having it once thanks!!!, and just one linux at a time is fine for me <g>
Tom Berkley wrote:
> 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:
> >
> > 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???
