I've been struggling for days now to get my genkernel image to boot. Lilo is reporting an error of "L 80" which is a disk timeout message. After reading the documentation I thought the problem was solveable with:
disk = /dev/hdb bios = 0x80 It's not ... I still get "L 80". Detailed below is my /etc/lilo.conf. I have XP on /dev/hda (master IDE) and Gentoo waiting to run on /dev/hdb (slave IDE). I guess if all else fails I can create a bootable partition on /dev/hda but I am trying to avoid messing around with my XP install. Any help would be really appreciated -- Thanks, Richard ==== contents of /etc/lilo.conf) ===== # Start LILO global section # Need to define disk geometry as hda has XP on it. disk = /dev/hdb bios = 0x80 lba32 # MBR to install LILO to: boot = /dev/hdb1 map = /boot/.map # Prompt with a 15 second timeout: prompt timeout=150 # Normal VGA console # vga = normal # VESA console with size 1024x768x16: vga = 791 # # End LILO global section # Linux bootable partition config begins image=/boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r11 label=gentoo read-only root=/dev/ram0 append="init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hdb3 udev" initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r11 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.7/34 - Release Date: 29/06/2005 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
