Yep, I believe you're right, but I typed it as sda1 on one try whan I was
real tired and put a lilo in the main dos partition and now I can't boot
win98 at all. Thanks though for the suggestion, I just used it wromg.
Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas J. Hamman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo
> On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> > Sigh....well today UPS left me a package with my Microsoft Win98 SE
update
> > in it, so I (gulp) installed it. It overwrote my lilo on the mbr of
sda.
> > My system consists of two scsi drives, scsi 0 has Win 98 in one
partition
> > and scsi 1 has mdk 6.0 w/3 partitions a swap, /boot and /. When I
executed
> > /sbin/lilo I was told there was no
> > /etc/lilo.conf. So I created the below file in hopes I was correct with
the
> > settings and it would work. When I again executed /sbin/lilo it seemed
to
> > access only scsi 1 and when I rebooted the mbr was still under Microsoft
> > control.
> >
> > boot=/dev/sdb
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > prompt
> > timeout=50
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk
> > label=linux
> > root=/dev/sdb6
> > read-only
> > other=/dev/sda
> > label=dos
> > table=/dev/sda
> >
> > What must I do to get lilo re-installed on scsi 0 and are my settings in
my
> > new lilo.conf correct (what happened to lilo.conf anyway, why did it
> > disappear from /etc)?
> >
> > Alan
>
> I'm not completely sure of this since I've never used SCSI drives before,
but I
> think maybe boot=/dev/sdb should instead be boot=/dev/sda ? I'd imagine
you'd
> want LILO in the MBR of the first drive.
>
>
> -Tom
>
