Thanks Robert,
I've got my system up now, and I didn't have to resort to putting the boot
partition on the IDE drive. I think the main problem was in the lilo.conf
file being incorrect. When I used the default file it (mostly) worked. I
made an entry in the fstab file instructing it to mount read-write. Upon
boot-up fsck was always giving an error about the root partition, but yet
when I ran fsck it always reported 'clean' for me.
I'm not sure what the most important difference was, but this lilo.conf
worked:
lba32
boot=/dev/sda
root=/dev/sda2
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
delay=50
vga=normal
default=Linux
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
image=/vmlinuz.old
label=LinuxOLD
read-only
optional
where /vmlinuz was a symbolic link to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17-compact.
This lilo.conf seemed to not work for me (although it had worked earlier,
extended with various kernel options, etc.):
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
#prompt
lba32
#vga=ask
timeout=50
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17-compact
label=linux
root=/dev/sda2
read-only
append = ""
I noticed that under Linux the IDE drive is found whether or not it is
enabled in BIOS. I disconnected power from it for awhile to make sure the
system only saw the SCSI drive, but I don't think that was the problem after
all.
-Kris
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Waldner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 6:18 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Problem booting my system
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 18:10:09 MDT, Kris Huber writes:
>With the boot sequence having scsi first, a program (the kernel, I assume)
>runs and prints "001 " in an endless loop, filling the screen until I
><cntl><alt><del>. I have an IDE drive in the system (ext2 file system),
but
>I've disabled it in BIOS in addition to not selecting it as a boot drive.
Have you looked at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200109/msg03337.html
?
cheers,
&rw
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