Hello,
as requested by several people, there you have my
/etc/fstab and
/etc/lilo.conf, together with my original posting.
Thanks in advance
[root@polaris marco]# more /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
image=/boot/vmlinuz-secure
label=linux
root=/dev/hda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-secure.img
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux-up
root=/dev/hda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=" failsafe"
read-only
/ETC/FSTAB (I also tried with a separate /boot partition
at the beginning of the drive, but it didn't work, and as
somebody noted, should be not an issue with LBA on, right?)
[root@polaris marco]# m /etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
[root@polaris marco]#
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Marco Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: "Marco Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 7:49 PM
>Subject: [expert] About LILO and default label: conclusion
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thanks to all who made suggestions for my LILO
>> problem (it would not recognize the default label,
>> i.e. it would not start after 5 seconds as set up
>> in /etc/lilo.conf.
>>
>> I have tried all your suggestions with LILO, i.e. creating
>> a /boot separate partition, placing it and/or / at the
>> beginning of the drive, giving them different partitions types
>> and/or names (/dev/hda1, /dev/hda5, ....).
>>
>> Eventually I just gave up. Now I have a system which still
>> won't boot by itself, i.e. wait forever at the LILO prompt.
>> If I just hit enter, or type linux, it boots fine, and MANDRAKE 7.1
>> looks quite cool, actually.
>>
>> The boot thing sucks, but since it's not a server box, I
>> can live with it, temporarily.
>> When I'll have perfected a backup procedure for the whole
>> drive, I'll try again to fiddle with LILO and/or GRUB.
>>
>
> A final note however: the problem is not just that this version of
> LILO doesn't likes > 1024 cylinders, because:
>
> 1) SAME HD and BIOS worked just fine with MANDRAKE 6.1
>
> 2) As I showed in the original posting, I did put either / or /boot
> at the beginning of the drive (or so the install tool told me)
>
> 3) I am surely missing something here, but is it possible that LILO
> doesn't see more than 1024 cylinders.... unless you just hit <ENTER>?
>
> 4) A clue for whoever can understand it: the big differences between
> my self-booting Mandrake 6.1 install and this are:
>
> I installed 6.1 with LILO on the MBR: I wasn't given this option
> during the expert installation process.
>
> With 6.1, I just choose two partitions, / and swap. This time,
> feeling though I wanted to have /, /usr, and /home on separate
> partitions.
>
> Thanks again to all who helped and to whoever just went through
> all this rambling. Any light is appreciated.
>
>
> Ciao,
> Marco
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