On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Wilhelm Bertalan wrote:
> > 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
It's installed on sdb1 because his primary bootloader Boot magic
is installed on sda's mbr
> > 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
>
