> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> Hi....my system consists of two scsi drives. sda is dedicated to
> Windows98 and has a single fat32 partition (sda1). sdb is dedicated to
> Mandrake Linux 6.0 and has 3 partitions (sdb1 is /boot, sdb5 is swap
> and sdb6 is /). Boot Magic is installed on the windows partition and
> boots Windows properly. But when it boots lilo Linux appears at first
> to be booting normally until the following error occurs:
>
--> The floppy boot disc's lilo.conf is:
>
--> boot=/dev/fd0
> The lilo conf in sdb6 /etc/lilo.conf is:
>
--> boot=/dev/sdb1 --> this must be a device, not a partition
i.e if you install it in MBR it should be /dev/sda
> 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/sda1
> label=dos
--> table=/dev/sda --> same as here!
>
> What is wrong, any ideas?
>
> Alan
>
the rest should be ok I suppose...
bye, willy
