When you run lilo and is says:
Warning: /dev/hdb is not on the first disk
it is telling you "I will write the boot program to /dev/hdb but your BIOS
will probably never look for the boot loader on hard drive B!" You are
probably booting the lilo on /dev/hda which now points to a kernel that is
no longer in the correct place on the disk.
I did this too. I had to boot my old Slackware system from a floppy for a
very long time. I finally figured it out.
I you have one of the newer BIOS's, you may be able to set it up to boot
from IDE-1 if that is really what you want.
What I THINK you want is the boot loader (LILO) on /dev/hda (boot=/dev/hda)
and change lilo.conf to use root=/dev/hdb1 (or /dev/hdb? whatever number ?
is). Such as:
elmo:/etc/named# less /etc/lilo.conf
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/hda
default = Slack96
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
delay = 100
vga = normal # force sane state
ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /vmlinuz
root = /dev/hdb1
label = Slack96
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for
checking
append = "max_scsi_luns=5"
# Linux bootable partition config ends
Hope this helps,
Bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LinuxMan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 3:53 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] lilo
>
>
>
> Hi!
>
> i did not change any settings in my bios since i installed mandrake...
> in fact , this happened from the first boot after installation... :(
>
> when running lilo i get :
>
>
>
> [root@webug /root]# lilo
> Warning: /dev/hdb is not on the first disk
> Added linux *
> Added failsafe
> Added floppy
> [root@webug /root]
>
> my primary disk (as you can see) is not hda but hdd... i had some
> problems installing
> it as primary, so it's configured as secondary slave..
> think that could be the reason ??
>
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> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> On 6/16/00, 12:26:23 PM, "Juan A. Magallon"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote regarding Re: [expert] lilo:
>
>
> > At 02:35 +0000 2000/06/16, tal amir wrote:
> > >Hey you guy's ! :-)
> > >
> > >when booting lilo (mdk 7.1) i am getting :
> > >
> > >li 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04
> > >04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04
> > >04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04
> > >04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04
> > >04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04
> > >04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04
> > >
>
> > Suffered from that sometimes: two possible causes:
> > - You booted with some different BIOS setting for your hard
> drive when
> > running lilo and when trying to boot with the kernel lilo
> intalled
> > (say you booted with disk in LBA mode, and then rebooted in
> LARGE
> > or NORMAL)
> > - You changed kenel (usuallly /vmlinuz or /boot/vmlinuz) without
> re-running
> > lilo. Or you ran lilo and it didn't found the default
> kernel you
> > specified in lilo.conf
>
> > Take a look to the error messages when running lilo....
>
> > Good Luck.
>
> > --
> > Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Grupo de Informatica Grafica Avanzada
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