Hi! I have two HD's. Although "hdb" (40GB) is not recognised by the BIOS, booting Debian 2.2 on "hdb" worked fine with LILO on the MBR of "hda". But yesterday I installed RedHat 7.2 on a spare partition of "hdb" and now LILO stopps with "L 01 01 01 ..."! However, I can reach my Debian system with a boot floppy - everything is still there. But it's impossible to boot from the HD!
My "lilo.conf" looks like: ("/boot" is inside the 1024 cylinder limit!) boot=/dev/hda install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal prompt timeout=50 image=/vmlinuz label=debian root=/dev/hdb3 read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=debian.old root=/dev/hdb3 read-only Rerunning lilo doesn't help. (BTW: I get no errors when I run lilo - it just refuses to boot later.) The "linear" option doesn't help. Setting the disk geometry with "disk=..." doesn't help. Making a DOS MBR with "FDISK /MBR" and copying it to "hdb" doesn't help. I have no idea what really happend but I think RatHat must have done something to "hdb" that makes it impossible for LILO to access it's second-stage boot loader on it. Although my system still works with a boot floppy I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanx, Andy G. 8-) PS: Please CC me your mails - I'm not on the list.