I've had half of this problem, try putting in 127 your lilo.conf file and
see if it boots, if not, keep stepping it down by one or two and keep
trying it. I have 320 megs of ram in my box and I had to put 300 in my
lilo.conf file before it would boot. I am running RH 6.1, but it sounds
like the same problem.
about the other problem, boot on a floppy and run fdisk and make sure the
original drive is still set as the active partition.
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Edward Moon wrote:
> I've got Redhat 6.2 installed on a 17GB IBM Ultra SCSI hard drive
> connected to a TekRam 390B (Symbios chipset) SCSI controller.
>
> Until the following events, I was able to boot into Linux from the
> SCSI hard drive (/dev/sda) which held the boot partition (/boot on
> /dev/sda1). I recently added a 13GB Maxtor IDE drive as supplemental
> storage. I also added an Adaptec 2901 PCI SCSI controller (no
> boot-rom, external connector only).
>
> I discovered that only 64MB of the installed 128MB RAM was
> recognized. I edited lilo.conf and added 'append = "mem=128M" and ran
> lilo and I got a message "Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk".
>
> When I rebooted the PC, lilo freezes after "LI".
>
> I've tried various options in lilo.conf (pointing to /dev/sda1,
> /dev/hda, /dev/hda1, removing the append = "mem=128M" line), but I
> can't boot the PC without using a boot floppy.
>
> I've also updated to the new version of lilo (21.4-2) that breaks the
> 1024 cylinder barrier, but that hasn't changed anything.
>
> Can anyone help me boot from either of my hard drives? The only thing
> I can think of doing now is backing up my data and reinstalling
> RedHat 6.2 with the /boot partition on /dev/hda instead of on
> /dev/sda.
>
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