Thanks for all your help, gang, but I'm getting nowhere with this mess.
I have a perfectly good bzImage on my sda4 partition, but the map and
boot sector have been screwed up with my lilo.config bad. I know what
my correct lilo.config should look like.
I would like to make a boot floppy (I had a rescue floppy for this
partition, but I switched from grub to lilo and didn't account for
this).
I normally boot to all partitions with Boot Magic (just a chain loader)
so lilo always goes in the partition boot sector.
This is what the correct lilo.config file should look like on my broken
partition:
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# target
boot = /dev/sda4
install = /boot/boot.b
# options
prompt
delay = 50
timeout=50
default=linux
image = /boot/vmlinuz-pc97-2.4.0-modular
label = linux
root = /dev/sda4
vga = normal
read-only
append = "quiet noapic nosmp"
initrd = /boot/initrd-2.4.0.gz
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I have created another config file that I call /etc/lilo.flop that
looks like this:
#
# /etc/lilo.flop
#
# target
boot = /dev/fd0
# options
ramdisk = 0
prompt
delay = 50
timeout=50
disk = /dev/sda
bios=0x80
linear
image = /boot/vmlinuz-pc97-2.4.0-modular
label = linux
root = /dev/sda4
vga = normal
read-only
append = "quiet noapic nosmp"
initrd = /boot/initrd-2.4.0.gz
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I mount the floppy.
Then I put a file on the floppy /boot/vmlinuz-pc97-2.40-modular and
/boot/initrd-2.4.0.gz which contain the good image and the initrd
archive.
Then I run lilo -C /etc/lilo.flop and I get the typical good messages
"Added linux*"
Then I get the "LI LI LI LI . . . . . ." screen death on reboot.
I would really appreciate anyones help on this. Thanks again in
advance!
--
Tony Alfrey
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"I'd rather be sailing"
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