Shouldn't all reference to hdd be renamed to hda since you
now have only one harddisk in your new pc?
Auyeung
----- Original Message -----
From: "Net Llama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:54 AM
Subject: I'm in LILO hell
> I'm in the process of building a new PC to replace my
aging PII-400 box.
> The trick is that I want to copy over the data from the
old to the new.
> I've got a nice 30GB IDE drive in the new box, and i've
successfully
> copied all the data with the following partition table:
>
> Disk /dev/hdd: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 3877 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdd1 1 677 5118088+ b Win95
FAT32 Win98
> /dev/hdd2 678 680 22680 83 Linux
/boot
> /dev/hdd3 * 681 1521 6357960 83 Linux
/
> /dev/hdd4 1522 3877 17811360 5 Extended
> /dev/hdd5 1522 1566 340168+ 82 Linux
swap
> /dev/hdd6 1567 2599 7809448+ 83 Linux
/usr
> /dev/hdd7 2600 3877 9661648+ 83 Linux
/opt
>
> Note, that everything will be /dev/hda in the new box,
this is just how
> its connected to the old box while i'm copying the data.
The data has
> copied over without any problems (i've verified by
mounting each
> partition). The problem at hand is the damn bootloader,
LILO.
>
> I'm trying to write LILO to the third partition (hdd3), as
i use a
> different bootloader in the MBR. Here's what lilo.conf
looks like:
> ==============
> boot=/dev/hdd3
> read-only
> prompt
> timeout=20
> vga=normal
> linear
> default=linux-2.4.5
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19
> root=/dev/hda3
> label=linux
> append="hdb=ide-scsi"
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5
> root=/dev/hda3
> label=linux-2.4.5
> append="hdb=ide-scsi"
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7
> root=/dev/hda3
> label=linux-2.4.7
> append="hdb=ide-scsi"
>
> ==============
> Here's where it all goes to hell:
> [root@hal /etc]# /sbin/lilo
> Warning: /dev/hdd3 is not on the first disk
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Device 0x1640: Invalid partition table, 3rd entry
> 3D address: 3/0/128 (1935362)
> Linear address: 1/0/680 (10281600)
>
> So i tried to fix the partition table:
> [root@hal /etc]# /sbin/lilo -P fix
> Warning: /dev/hdd3 is not on the first disk
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Device 0x1640: Invalid partition table, 3rd entry
> 3D address: 3/0/128 (1935362)
> Linear address: 1/0/680 (10281600)
> Writing modified partition table to device 0x1640
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Added linux
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Added linux-2.4.5 *
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Added linux-2.4.7
>
> Attempts to boot into Linux result in the dreaded
"010101010101010110"
> series of errors filling the screen. FWIW, i can boot
into Windoze just
> fine, so this is purely a LILO problem.
>
> Normally, i'd assume that this is that dreaded 1024
cylinder issue, but
> as the fdisk output above indicates, /boot is well below
the 1024th
> cylinder. I'm really not sure what else could be the
problem here.
>
> I've been fighting this since Friday night with virtually
no progress,
> so i'd appreciate the wisdom of any of your LILO gurus.
I'm really
> eager to get this new box up & running, since its a
significant hardware
> improvement over the older one.
>
> -Lonni
>
> =====
>
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