-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Trevor Ramoutar wrote: | Problem is that LILO doesn't work properly. Every time I install Linux | on my second harddrive (this happens with all distros) LILO and GRUB | don't work. Which is why I need a bootdisk... | | How do I manually re-create the bootdisk? Is there an .img file that I | can use? I can still access my linux partition, so that's not a | problem. | | Thanks. | | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: September 10, 2002 5:40 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [Cooker] Problem booting into RC1 | | "Trevor Ramoutar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | |>I grabbed the report.bug.gz from /root/drakx. It should be attached. | | | [...] | | |>>I was able to successfully install RC1. In the last part of the |>>install, I created a bootdisk and then rebooted. However when I |>>try to boot off the floppy into my Mandrake install all I get is: |>> |>>Loading vmlinuz............. |>>Boot failed: Please change disks and press a key to continue. |> | | According to the logs, the creation of the bootdisk had been | successful. The two options are: either our bootdisk creation is | bugged and doesn't report failures, or your floppy has an | hardware failure that didn't report to the floppy drive during | bootdisk creation but lead to a misread when you tried to boot | with it. I would favor the second option. | | What you can do is boot into your Mandrake (according to the | logs, lilo was correctly installed on your harddrive) and try to | copy the contents of the bootdisk on the harddrive, and see if | there is any failure. Then retry by hand to create the bootdisk. | You may also format your floppy. | | |>>My Mandrake install is on my second hard drive. Is this the |>>problem? What can I do to fix this? Thanks. |> | | I can't say for sure for I think it should work ok. | |
To boot with LILO, I think you still need a /boot partition somewhere on the first drive. I could be wrong, but if you have about 10MB to spare, might be worth a shot to you. I can't help you with a floppy, as only two of my machines even contain one (laptop and a server I rarely if ever bring down). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj2AFpcACgkQUMkt1ZRwL1MXBwCgnVVsbf0U5V9XVTIPM8vy7PMC SwkAn0b2VCGKViJTzuvegiWQwfbwiO8T =VSJG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
