[ale] LILO blues

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

Looks like the "boot=" line is likely the culprit.  I can't check it just
at the moment, due to being booted into Winblows NT and doing a hefty
download, but I will check it in a bit.  Many thanks.

BTW, I had the foresight to make a kernel disk after running setup.  I can
boot from that just fine and get the syetem properly rooted.  I just wnat
to wean th emachine off of the floppy, if you get my drift.

Many thanks.


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On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 jj at spiderentertainment.com wrote:

> Well, if you installed slackware.
> Boot from a floppy,
> mount the partition as mnt
> edit your lilo.conf in etc, specify sda for boot partition
> (/mnt/etc/lilo.conf)
> boot=/dev/sda
> then run lilo with:
> lilo -v -r /mnt
> 
> Do the same for the other os.
> 
> 
> "Glenn C. Lasher Jr." wrote:
> 
> > Hm.  Well, where do I start?
> >
> > Well, I blew away my Slackware 3.3 by accident, and it was residing on
> > /dev/hda2, with home mounted on /dev/hda3 and a couple of other
> > miscellaneous things on /dev/hda4 and /dev/hdc2.  /dev/hda1 and hdc1 were
> > swap partitions.
> >
> > This happened while trying to install Slackware 4.0 on /dev/sda1.  Its
> > home would be /dev/sda2, with other stuff on /dev/sdb2 and swap on
> > /dev/sdb1.  This was, in turn to make room for Winblows NT to go on
> > /dev/hda and /dev/hdc. (unfortunately, a requisite for my work).
> >
> > What happened is this:  LILO decided that it was going to take over the
> > hda mbr instead of the sda one like it was supposed to do.  As a result,
> > neither OS boots, unless I plug in a bootable floppy, for Linux, or use
> > DOS fdisk to clobber the LILO on hda.
> >
> > My system can be configured to boot from either hda or sda.  I want to
> > switch OS's by changing this parameter in the BIOS.  Therefore, I need to
> > have LILO on sda.  Why won't it go there?!?!?
> >
> > Many thanks.
> >
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