Re: Lilo and "once"

2008-06-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Noam Rathaus wrote: Hi, I am looking for an option to tell Lilo to boot a certain kernel ONCE, and if it fails - to revert (after the reboot) to the previous one. Is this possible? lilo -D override_default lilo -R the_command_line_to_run_once So, after upgrade on a remote machine, the

Re: Lilo and "once"

2008-06-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Noam, The problem is, that (if I recall correctly) nothing there is telling lilo that it "failed". LILO just passes the parameters to the kernel, loads the kernel etc and boots them. If your kernel can load a shell and mount the /boot partition, then you can write a simple scri

Re: Lilo and "once"

2008-06-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
lilo -r is only good to change root directory. Hetz On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Noam Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > As far as I recall, it was "lilo -r " > Haven't used lilo for several years now (and I was a late adopter...) > > - Noam &

Re: Lilo and "once"

2008-06-06 Thread Noam Meltzer
Hi, As far as I recall, it was "lilo -r " Haven't used lilo for several years now (and I was a late adopter...) - Noam On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Noam Rathaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for an option to tell Lilo to boot a certain ke

Lilo and "once"

2008-06-06 Thread Noam Rathaus
Hi, I am looking for an option to tell Lilo to boot a certain kernel ONCE, and if it fails - to revert (after the reboot) to the previous one. Is this possible? -- Noam Rathaus CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.beyondsecurity.com "Know that you are safe." Beyond Security Finali

grub vs lilo configuration

2006-10-30 Thread Valery Reznic
Good day. Is is a way to configure grub to boot after specified timeout, no matter what user press on the keyboard ? I.e make grub behave like lilo with "timeout" parameter. Grub's timeout as long as i see is like lilo&#

Re: Grub vs. Lilo - summary

2005-07-11 Thread Leonid Grinberg
You can make the kernel default and then if you don't like it change it. It's not very hard to change the default kernel (I would use boot-admin). To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the mess

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-23 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Ira Abramov wrote: "just have to" is not good enough. not documented enough, and what's with having to learn yet another commandline with non-standard disk enumeration and partition numbering? this MAY be excellent for someone who uses it daily maybe but I need it only once every few weeks or

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
#x27;s > with having to learn yet another commandline with non-standard disk > enumeration and partition numbering? What's the equivalent with lilo? > this MAY be excellent for someone > who uses it daily maybe but I need it only once every few weeks or > months, Muggles wi

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-22 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
dure is crual and unusual, not to mention > the odd configuration that may or may not follow :) Noone forces you to use grub. Use lilo. Just a small note - grub2 is in active development. That's probably the main reason that grub isn't very well maintained. You might want to try grub

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-22 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Alex Alexander, from the post of Sun, 22 May: > > Grub worked fine for me on a RAID-1 dual SATA machine. > > Debian Installer (RC3 - pre-final) installed grub on the first drive > and the machine boots like a charm. You just have to > > grub > root (hd1,0) > setup (hd1) > > to make the

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-21 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Sat, 21 May: 1. LILO allows booting from software RAID-1 partitions in a fault tolerant way. 2. LILO allows the "-R" option, where you select the next kern

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-21 Thread Alex Alexander
On 21 May 2005 20:06:49 +, Oleg Goldshmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Sat, 21 May: > > > 1. LILO allows booting from software RAID-1 partitions in a fault > > >

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-21 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Sat, 21 May: > > 1. LILO allows booting from software RAID-1 partitions in a fault > > tolerant way. > > 2. LILO allows the "-R" option, where you select the next kernel t

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-21 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Sat, 21 May: > Ira Abramov wrote: > > >I have two must-have features in LILO that grub doesn't do at the > >moment. > > > I know of two, that may or may not be the two you are referring to too. > > 1. LILO allows b

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-21 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ira Abramov wrote: I have two must-have features in LILO that grub doesn't do at the moment. I know of two, that may or may not be the two you are referring to too. 1. LILO allows booting from software RAID-1 partitions in a fault tolerant way. 2. LILO allows the "-R" op

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-21 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ori Idan wrote: shimi wrote: On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 16:07 +0300, Ori Idan wrote: I installed debian on an IBM thinkpad with LILO as it's boot loader, when LILO starts is says: Loading Linux and then draws dots for few seconds and then says BIOS check successfull and start to ac

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:04:47AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Sat, 21 May: > > > GRUB is so much better than what I remember from LILO. > > I have two must-have features in LILO that grub doesn't do at the > moment. with all its g

What are those two must-have features? (was: Re: Lilo boots slow...)

2005-05-21 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 10:04 +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Sat, 21 May: > > > GRUB is so much better than what I remember from LILO. > > I have two must-have features in LILO that grub doesn't do at the > moment. with all its glori

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-21 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:04:47AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Sat, 21 May: > > > GRUB is so much better than what I remember from LILO. > > I have two must-have features in LILO that grub doesn't do at the > moment. with all its g

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-21 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Sat, 21 May: > GRUB is so much better than what I remember from LILO. I have two must-have features in LILO that grub doesn't do at the moment. with all its glorified feature set, it's not easy to figure out the install process either. the b

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-20 Thread Amos Shapira
with. Leave yourself a back door in case you mess things up and do the change. What happened to the "let's learn new stuff" spirit? GRUB is so much better than what I remember from LILO. Cheers, --Amos To unsubscrib

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-20 Thread Ori Idan
shimi wrote: >On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 16:07 +0300, Ori Idan wrote: > > >>I installed debian on an IBM thinkpad with LILO as it's boot loader, >>when LILO starts is says: Loading Linux and then draws dots for few >>seconds and then says BIOS check successfull and st

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-20 Thread shimi
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 16:07 +0300, Ori Idan wrote: > I installed debian on an IBM thinkpad with LILO as it's boot loader, > when LILO starts is says: Loading Linux and then draws dots for few > seconds and then says BIOS check successfull and start to actualy load > the kernel. &g

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-20 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 16:07 +0300, Ori Idan wrote: > I installed debian on an IBM thinkpad with LILO as it's boot loader, > when LILO starts is says: Loading Linux and then draws dots for few > seconds and then says BIOS check successfull and start to actualy load > the kernel. &g

Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-20 Thread Ori Idan
I installed debian on an IBM thinkpad with LILO as it's boot loader, when LILO starts is says: Loading Linux and then draws dots for few seconds and then says BIOS check successfull and start to actualy load the kernel. Is there a way to shorten the time it draws these dots? What is this

Re: Booting from CD using LILO on a none Bootable motherboard

2004-08-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:10:00PM +0300, ik wrote: > Hello list, > > I wish to boot a CD with Linux inside on an old computer (P120 MHz), where > the motherboard (contain an old Award version of BIOS) does not have "Boot > from CD" option. I thought to hack it using L

Re: Booting from CD using LILO on a none Bootable motherboard

2004-08-19 Thread Shaul Karl
I wish to boot a CD with Linux inside on an old computer (P120 MHz), where the > > motherboard (contain > > an old Award version of BIOS) does not have "Boot from CD" option. I thought to > > hack it using LILO, > > and make it call the book-able CD, but I'

Re: Booting from CD using LILO on a none Bootable motherboard

2004-08-19 Thread Uri Sharf
ello list, > > I wish to boot a CD with Linux inside on an old computer (P120 MHz), where the > motherboard (contain > an old Award version of BIOS) does not have "Boot from CD" option. I thought to hack > it using LILO, > and make it call the book-able CD, but I

Booting from CD using LILO on a none Bootable motherboard

2004-08-19 Thread ik
Hello list, I wish to boot a CD with Linux inside on an old computer (P120 MHz), where the motherboard (contain an old Award version of BIOS) does not have "Boot from CD" option. I thought to hack it using LILO, and make it call the book-able CD, but I'm unable to do so, be

Grub vs. Lilo - summary

2004-05-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ok, here is my take on the matter: First of all, if unattended kernel replacements or RAID root FS are not important to you, GRUB gobbles up LILO any day of the week. It is faster to load, more resiliant to configuration errors, and more secure when you try to lock down the config using boot

Re: Preparing a LILO-based boot diskette

2001-12-30 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Ira Abramov wrote: > > > I'm not going to install LILO - period. Since the rest of my family uses > > > Windows, there's no point in booting Linux not through it. > > Shlomi, you're a grown boy, get yourself your own machine maybe? :-

Re: Preparing a LILO-based boot diskette

2001-12-30 Thread Ira Abramov
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Schlomo Schapiro wrote: > Best solution: > Install Lilo, boot into linux by default, start X and VMWare with the > original Windows. all is nice and dandy, BUT... there's the question of the cost of a VMWare license (I have a serious intention of using my s

Re: Preparing a LILO-based boot diskette

2001-12-30 Thread Schlomo Schapiro
Best solution: Install Lilo, boot into linux by default, start X and VMWare with the original Windows. They get Windows, you get Linux (e.g. X on another VC), nobody has to reboot any more and, best of all, you'll get a faster computer after your father complains that the system got slower

Re: Preparing a LILO-based boot diskette

2001-12-29 Thread Shlomi Fish
e to boot it instead. > > > > My father would kill me if I'll replace the Win98's MBR boot loader with > > LILO, so I'm using loadlin. > > why? just set up LILO to time-out after 3 seconds, and boot into windows > by default - your father won't notice any d

Re: Preparing a LILO-based boot diskette

2001-12-29 Thread guy keren
l replace the Win98's MBR boot loader with > LILO, so I'm using loadlin. why? just set up LILO to time-out after 3 seconds, and boot into windows by default - your father won't notice any difference - just tell him to press ENTER if he sees 'LILO:' on the screen for more th

Re: Preparing a LILO-based boot diskette

2001-12-29 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Omer Zak wrote: > Hello Shlomi, > 1. How did you invoke lilo (the program) to create the boot diskette? I "su"'ed into root and typed "/sbin/lilo -c" at the command line. Regards, Shlomi Fish > 2. In my PC, disabling an hard d

Re: Preparing a LILO-based boot diskette

2001-12-29 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Shlomi, 1. How did you invoke lilo (the program) to create the boot diskette? 2. In my PC, disabling an hard disk from the BIOS does not prevent Linux from working with it, once it has already booted. YMMV (with other computer brands), however

Preparing a LILO-based boot diskette

2001-12-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi and Shabat Shalom. I installed kernel 2.4.16.11mdk (from Mandrake Cooker) on my Linux installation. It did not replace the old kernel but rather I have both version installed. I'd like to boot it instead. My father would kill me if I'll replace the Win98's MBR boot loader wi

[Fwd: Lilo question - resolved

2001-06-21 Thread fredy
ns of it since the BIOS gives each disk a number usually starting with 0x80 but it seems each BIOS runs a different sequense of numbers, lilo is now installed on /dev/hda (doesnt work on /dev/hdd) and loads just fine - linux and Win2K. Regarding Win2k, i'm still having the same problem, when

Re: Lilo question

2001-06-20 Thread milesteg
Just out of curiosity .. do you have the linux hd configured as a SECONDARY slave without a master? -= Miles Teg -=- Understanding kills ambition; Dominance? Submission! =- = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with th

Re: Lilo question

2001-06-20 Thread fredy
> well, I tried it with values 0x81 and 0x80 I got the same results. thanks :) any other ideas ? > > In my experience, lilo is the most (or only) difficult part of linux > installation. > > But if you want help, you need to provide information, how many disks, > h

Re: [Fwd: Re: Lilo question]

2001-06-20 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
SS). > the 2nd HD was a PS but it had the same results > i say again, under Win2k without the 2nd HD everything is working fine. > > lilo.conf is pretty standard ...i attach it here. > The problem is not only with liloi can always load it like i am now, using a >floppy. &

[Fwd: Re: Lilo question]

2001-06-20 Thread fredy
again, under Win2k without the 2nd HD everything is working fine. lilo.conf is pretty standard ...i attach it here. The problem is not only with liloi can always load it like i am now, using a floppy. the problem is larger, when the 2nd HD is in the whole machine doesnt work like it should

Re: Lilo question

2001-06-20 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
lems before (With Win2K or linux)? In my experience, lilo is the most (or only) difficult part of linux installation. But if you want help, you need to provide information, how many disks, how are they connected, how are they partitioned, content of lilo.conf. -- Matan Ziv-Av.

Re: Lilo question

2001-06-20 Thread fredy
Ok. I downgraded my bios from P17 to P15...meaning two generations, dating a year back... still the same results. This is stopping to be interesting and begins to be annoying. I'de love to hear any ideas. Has anyone had these problems before (With Win2K or linux)? and if so how were they solved?

Re: Lilo question

2001-06-20 Thread fredy
Basically what it means is that my BIOS has problems with the HD's... I just upgraded to the latest version of my bios, it solved a few problems i had before (liek it not being able to boot from CD).. If it is true then I have to downgrade the bios... which is an interesting task on its own... A

Lilo question

2001-06-20 Thread fredy
is a 15GB disk with Win2K which after startup with the second HD inside crashes with error 0x001e ...which is common for most serious mircojunk bugs. 2. After finishing the installation of the linux system it says it cannot write the lilo to /dev/hda (the boot partition on the master disk) and

Re: Lilo problem

2001-05-29 Thread Tomer Dagan
) lable=Windows tables=/dev/hda and don't forget to run "lilo" after you rewrite the "lilo.conf". good luck Tomer. - Original Message - From: "Erez Boym" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Linux-IL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Lilo problem

2001-05-28 Thread Erez Boym
Hi, I have a problem loading Win2K with Lilo. I have installed Win2k and Red hat 6.0 on the same machine. The comp. used to be used by both me and my partner, which knows only MSOffice, and to make things easier for her I had removed Lilo by using fdisk /MBR. So whenever I'm using the co

lilo quastion

2001-05-13 Thread ran
  hi all, I'm having a problem loading windows on a hdb2 partition. I have a suse 7.1 on hda Hdb has 3 primary partitions, and when i load with lilo to hdb2 it hides my other 2 partitions ( hdb1, hdb3 ) - both are FAT32   my lilo

lilo instellation problem

2001-04-29 Thread Micha Feigin
Hello I tried to install lilo on a new red hat 7 instalation. I tried to istall it on a 15 meg hda2 /boot, located after a 16 gig windows partition (which I can't move/remove etc.). I got an error (which coresponded to a comment during the installation formating stage) which said that

Re: lilo instellation problem

2001-04-29 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi use the option 'lba32' in your lilo.conf. Works like a charm. didi On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:10:59PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > Hello > > I tried to install lilo on a new red hat 7 instalation. > I tried to istall it on a 15 meg hda2 /boot, located

lilo instellation problem

2001-04-29 Thread Micha Feigin
Hello I tried to install lilo on a new red hat 7 instalation. I tried to istall it on a 15 meg hda2 /boot, located after a 16 gig windows partition (which I can't move/remove etc.). I got an error (which coresponded to a comment during the installation formating stage) which said that

Re: VMWare and LILO configuration

2001-01-07 Thread Dani Arbel
llo > > I have installed VMWare on my Linux (host). There are 2 seprate HDs on this > system. I have created raw disks to install the guest OSs. Win98 is installed > as a guest OS on one raw disk (/dev/hda5). > > The problem now is with LILO. I have

VMWare and LILO configuration

2001-01-07 Thread Subba Rao
. Win98 is installed as a guest OS on one raw disk (/dev/hda5). The problem now is with LILO. I have installed LILO on my /dev/hda MBR. Each time I power on the VMWare, it goes to the LILO prompt. So I modified the lilo.conf to provide Win98 as an option. At the VMWare LILO prompt I select Win98 and

Re: LILO won't start windows

2000-09-26 Thread didi
slave, with lilo on the primary-master, and to boot windows I use this entry: other = /dev/hdb1 label = w loader = /boot/chain.b table = /dev/hdb map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x81 map-drive = 0x81

Re: LILO won't start windows

2000-09-26 Thread Noam Meltzer
I didn't quite understand what you mean by "manually done". We tried configuring LILO with the yast tool which comes with SUSE, but it just screwed everything up, and we had to use the backup file we created. Manor Gelber wrote: was this manually done?he should try confingu

Re: LILO won't start windows

2000-09-26 Thread Noam Meltzer
The lilo doens't seem to do any problem when I run it. And, yes, I tried the manuals. Shaul Karl wrote: 1) What output are you getting when you run lilo? 2) Perhaps lilo docs can help you more?       Name: 31

Re: LILO won't start windows

2000-09-26 Thread Shaul Karl
1) What output are you getting when you run lilo? 2) Perhaps lilo docs can help you more? -- Attached file included as plaintext by Listar -- -- File: 31 -- Desc: 31 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-Date: Mon Sep 25 23:37:25 2000 Envelope-to: shaul@localhost Received: from localhost

LILO won't start windows

2000-09-25 Thread Noam Meltzer
Hello, About two weeks ago I sent a question requesting help dealing with LILO for a friend. I didn't quite get an answer for my problem, probably because i didn't send the "lilo.conf" file (mainly because i didn't have it on my computer). Anyway, now I sent both

Re: lilo cause a virus warning -forgot to mention it is installed on the Linux Partition

2000-09-16 Thread adi schwartz
i have tryed doing this and installed it on the linux root patition by still with no use. - Original Message - From: Oren Held <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: adi schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ilug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 11:04 PM Subject: Re:

Re: lilo cause a virus warning

2000-09-16 Thread Ereli
16, 2000 7:54 PM Subject: lilo cause a virus warning hii   whan i use the virus protection option on my bios i get a virus warning when i use lilo this must be because lilo changes the mbr   is there any thing to do rether then disabeling the protection option ?

Re: lilo cause a virus warning

2000-09-16 Thread Oren Held
Hello Adi! You can install lilo not on your mbr, but on a specific partition of your harddrive, which you must make bootable. I also don't think that the bios virus protection is that good, though I don't guarantee this.. I would disable it, if I were you, and use a normal anti-v

lilo cause a virus warning

2000-09-16 Thread adi schwartz
hii   whan i use the virus protection option on my bios i get a virus warning when i use lilo this must be because lilo changes the mbr   is there any thing to do rether then disabeling the protection option ?

Re: LILO problem

2000-09-06 Thread Noam Meltzer
--msBD9D39DF2AB1F6918C46AF44 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi as far as i can see the problem IS on the linux side. unless instead of directing the lilo to boot windows from /dev/sda1 i'm supposed to direct to /dev/sda (the MBR)

Re: LILO problem

2000-09-05 Thread Oren Held
lain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi! > I'm posting this message for a friend. > I'll start with the symptom: > when he boots the computer and lilo starts he has options for both > windows and linux, but he can only start linux. when he types &#x

LILO problem

2000-09-05 Thread Noam Meltzer
--ms85305C5E3329ACFFE88543A7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! I'm posting this message for a friend. I'll start with the symptom: when he boots the computer and lilo starts he has options for both windows and linux, but he can

Re: LILO stopped working - giving strange message

2000-07-20 Thread Noam Meltzer
tc/fstab and lilo.conf to reflect the changes > 3. reboot with the same method as (1), but this time use > root=/dev/ to get the root system to what you wnat > 4. run lilo > > Matti > That sounds too simple. I hope that's all, I should have thought about it already, but you know wh

Re: LILO stopped working - giving strange message

2000-07-19 Thread Matti Picus
lilo Matti At 02:30 AM 20/7/00 +0200, you wrote: >Assume that I put it back as hdd so I could change some settings files, >what should >I change? I assume I should start with /etc/fstab, but what's more? = To unsubscr

Re: LILO stopped working - giving strange message

2000-07-19 Thread Noam Meltzer
--msD2965E75749169AE074FBF6A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well, I tried to follow the idea Schlomo Schapiro gave, about connecting my secondary slave HD as a master, but the problem is like this: I need to boot into linux, which till now (

RE: LILO stopped working - HD master/slave jumpers

2000-07-17 Thread Kalaev, Maxim
Hi all I just want to say what my friend had a problem with incorrect set jumpers. He lived happily with WIN, but when we tried to install Linux on his machine, installation was halting somewhere during rpm-s installing (it was RH6.0) I was very surprised what setting jumpers SOLVED the probl

Re: LILO stopped working - giving strange message

2000-07-17 Thread Schlomo Schapiro
ded Space: > > the first partition is Linux Swap. The second is Ext2 (just 8MB) which is for > > "/boot" > > and the last one is Ext2 which is "/" > > > > Now, here is my lilo.conf file attached. > > 10x for your help. :) > > > > -- >

Re: LILO stopped working - giving strange message

2000-07-17 Thread Noam Meltzer
--ms33D029696CC3C7A2BD7C4A5A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Shaul Karl wrote: > You still seems to have a "Secondary Slave" without a "Secondary Master". > It is not working and Matan has point out that it is contrary to the spec. > Further

Re: LILO stopped working - giving strange message

2000-07-17 Thread Shaul Karl
Ext2 which is "/" > > Now, here is my lilo.conf file attached. > 10x for your help. :) > > -- > Noam Meltzer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ: 4853872 > > > > -- Attached file included as plaintext by Listar -- > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >

Re: LILO stopped working - giving strange message

2000-07-16 Thread Matti Picus
Just a wild guess, but maybe the "linear" doesn't jive with the way the BIOS sees the HD - so it can't read your /boot Matti At 01:32 AM 17/7/00 +0200, you wrote: ># LILO Konfigurations-Datei ># Start LILO global Section ># If you want to prevent console user

Re: LILO stopped working - giving strange message

2000-07-16 Thread Noam Meltzer
lp. :) -- Noam Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 4853872 -- Attached file included as plaintext by Listar -- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="lilo.conf" # LILO Konfigurations-Datei # Start LILO global Section # If you want to prevent console user

Re: LILO stopped working - giving strange message

2000-07-16 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
> I do not know if it is that you simply did not mention it or that you really > did not do it. > Do not you have to change the secondary slave jumper from slave to master when > making such a change? Perhaps some BIOS reconfiguration is required? Does > Windows can see all your HDs Having a sla

Re: LILO stopped working - giving strange message

2000-07-16 Thread Shaul Karl
to disconnect one of > > the HD - the Secondary Master. The other drives stayed just how they > > were defined. > > Now when I booted my machine I discovered that instead of LILO I get a > > nonstopping 01 (or was it 10, i can't remember now) with spaces between > >

Re: LILO stopped working - giving strange message

2000-07-15 Thread Schlomo Schapiro
ry Slave > The CD is Primary Slave > I have aSuse 6.4 (kernel 2.2.14) > Now everything was working just fine until I had to disconnect one of > the HD - the Secondary Master. The other drives stayed just how they > were defined. > Now when I booted my machine I discovered that in

LILO stopped working - giving strange message

2000-07-15 Thread Noam Meltzer
rking just fine until I had to disconnect one of the HD - the Secondary Master. The other drives stayed just how they were defined. Now when I booted my machine I discovered that instead of LILO I get a nonstopping 01 (or was it 10, i can't remember now) with spaces between each pair. Anyway,

Re: LILO stopped working - giving strange message

2000-07-15 Thread Noam Meltzer
just fine until I had to disconnect one of > > the HD - the Secondary Master. The other drives stayed just how they > > were defined. > > (And I understand that /boot was not on it) > > > Now when I booted my machine I discovered that instead of LILO I get a > > no

Re: LILO stopped working - giving strange message

2000-07-15 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
ter. The other drives stayed just how they > were defined. > Now when I booted my machine I discovered that instead of LILO I get a > nonstopping 01 (or was it 10, i can't remember now) with spaces between 01 usually means disk does not exist. Probably lilo tries to access something

Re: LILO stopped working - giving strange message

2000-07-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
> The CD is Primary Slave > I have aSuse 6.4 (kernel 2.2.14) > Now everything was working just fine until I had to disconnect one of > the HD - the Secondary Master. The other drives stayed just how they > were defined. (And I understand that /boot was not on it) > Now when I boot

LILO stopped working - giving strange message

2000-07-15 Thread Noam Meltzer
rking just fine until I had to disconnect one of the HD - the Secondary Master. The other drives stayed just how they were defined. Now when I booted my machine I discovered that instead of LILO I get a nonstopping 01 (or was it 10, i can't remember now) with spaces between each pair. Anyway,

Re: Lilo & > 1024 Cylinder Disk.

2000-03-31 Thread Adi Stav
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 05:09:15PM +0300, Ely Levy wrote: > Lilo or any other booter for that matter can load from after the 1024 > cylinder (about 8 gig) limit make the boot partition before.. IIRC, GRUB can do that. Never used it though. I think it actually reads the filesystem witho

Re: Lilo & > 1024 Cylinder Disk.

2000-03-30 Thread Ely Levy
Lilo or any other booter for that matter can load from after the 1024 cylinder (about 8 gig) limit make the boot partition before.. Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Marc A. Volovic wrote: | Alex Dukhan wrote: | | > Does anyone know about

Re: Lilo & > 1024 Cylinder Disk.

2000-03-29 Thread Alex Dukhan
Thanks to all for your precious help. I create a small partition and install the /boot on it. It Works. Thanks. Alex. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message

Re: Lilo & > 1024 Cylinder Disk.

2000-03-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Alex Dukhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know about any problems with installing lilo on 20 GB disk ( > > 1024 cylinder ). > I'm trying to install lilo on the MBR and when installing , it keeps telling > me "cannot install lilo > 1024 cylinder&q

Re: Lilo & > 1024 Cylinder Disk.

2000-03-29 Thread Eran Tromer
"Marc A. Volovic" wrote: > > Alex Dukhan wrote: > > > Does anyone know about any problems with installing lilo on 20 GB disk > > ( > 1024 cylinder ). > > I'm trying to install lilo on the MBR and when installing , it keeps > > telling me &qu

RE: Lilo & > 1024 Cylinder Disk.

2000-03-29 Thread El-al, Netta
From: Alex Dukhan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 17:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Lilo & > 1024 Cylinder Disk. Does anyone know about any problems with installing lilo on 20 GB disk ( > 1024 cylinder ). I'm trying to install lilo on the MBR and w

Lilo & > 1024 Cylinder Disk.

2000-03-29 Thread Alex Dukhan
Title: Lilo & > 1024 Cylinder Disk. Does anyone know about any problems with installing lilo on 20 GB disk ( > 1024 cylinder ). I'm trying to install lilo on the MBR and when installing , it keeps telling me "cannot install lilo > 1024 cylinder" and doesn'

LILO

2000-02-09 Thread haiim
I installed RedHat 6.0 in a new partition. my computer, P266 Win98 + Win95 has a multiboot program (BOOTSTAR) that allows me to choose what partition/ disk to boot. The installation was OK , RedHat came to life , Gnome interface and all. But now I can not boot to Linux. LILO goes to booting

Re: LILO cant boot

2000-02-08 Thread Omer
lvier. : :Omer wrote: : :> On Sat, 5 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :> :> :Hey, :> : :> :i've just reinstalled slackware 4.0 (dont ask why) all went good, but :> :when i got to the lilo part it told me he cant install lilo (after i :> :chose an 'MBR lilo' install) ,

Re: LILO cant boot

2000-02-05 Thread Omer
On Sat, 5 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Hey, : :i've just reinstalled slackware 4.0 (dont ask why) all went good, but :when i got to the lilo part it told me he cant install lilo (after i :chose an 'MBR lilo' install) , so i did a 'floppy lilo' install and :thought

Re: LILO cant boot

2000-02-05 Thread Shaul Karl
1) Sending your lilo.conf to the list might help. 2) Does your lilo.conf includes boot=/dev/hda or boot=/dev/hda2 ? That is, does lilo wrote its data on the mbr or somewhere else (or is it me who is mixing up the details?) 3) Lilo docs are

Re: LILO cant boot

2000-02-05 Thread Jonathan Ben-Avraham
On Sat, 5 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey, > > i've just reinstalled slackware 4.0 (dont ask why) all went good, but > when i got to the lilo part it told me he cant install lilo (after i > chose an 'MBR lilo' install) , so i did a 'floppy lilo'

LILO cant boot

2000-02-05 Thread rantz
Hey, i've just reinstalled slackware 4.0 (dont ask why) all went good, but when i got to the lilo part it told me he cant install lilo (after i chose an 'MBR lilo' install) , so i did a 'floppy lilo' install and thought every thing shuld be oaky. after finishing the ins

Re: Me ,Lilo ,IDE & SCSI

2000-01-05 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
I recall I was once fscking my head off for half a day, till I finally decided I can do without the option to boot the Windows on the IDE disk. After physically disconnecting the IDE and then running lilo to install again (have a Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI), it worked perfectly. Ben-Nes Michael

Me ,Lilo ,IDE & SCSI

2000-01-05 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
Hi All My Lilo hate me and show only "LI" while loading. I have motherboard Abit bh6 HD IBM scsi UW 9GB Tekram 390f-UW HDA1 HDC1,2 SDA1 600MB - / <<<< bootable flag sda2 64MB - swap sda3 2GB - /usr I tried LINEAR and other way to partion SDA without success. While

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