Jim B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You did run /sbin/lilo after making *any* edits to your lilo.conf right? Yes, I did.
> Also, how had you booted when you were making those edits? If /dev/hdc1 > was not your root partition at the time (for example, if you had booted > off a floppy), I wonder if the wrong "lilo.conf" was read to write your > boot sector. If this is the case, try it again but specify the lilo.conf > with the -C parameter: > lilo -C /mnt/disk2/etc/lilo.conf I tried all kinds of things, including manually specifying config file. I do boot off floppy (takes about 7 minutes to boot), but the root file system is /dev/hdc1. I tried increasing verbosity level of lilo to 5, and then run "lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf". It printed all kinds of stuff, but no warnings or error messages (apart from the warnning that /dev/hdc is not the first harddrive). "lilo -q" also doesn't yield in anything interesting (as far as I can tell). Would there be any use in me posting those outputs (they are lengthy)? > LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot > loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a > geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map > installer. Yeah, I skimmed thru the whole manual. This explanation is not very helpful to me, unfortunately. Could anyone interpret what it means in simpler terms? What are possible causes of this? p.s. I just attempted to boot kernel from /dev/hda4, but specify /dev/hdc1 as root partition (lilo works in my slink installation) by modifying slink's lilo.conf thusly: ,---- | boot=/dev/hda4 | root=/dev/hda4 | install=/boot/boot.b | map=/boot/map | delay=200 | | image = /zImage | label = linux | read-only | | image = /zImage | label = potato | root = /dev/hdc1 `---- Guess what! Lilo stopped working from /dev/hda4 too!!! It won't give me a boot prompt (hangs at "LI" just like when running off /dev/hdc1). What gives? It used to work perfectly w/o the second boot option. Thanks again! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)
