Willy....thanks for the suggestion, but lilo is not in the MBR of sdb, it's
in the sdb1 partition of sdb, so it's gotta' say sdb1 there. I'm pretty
sure on this, but I've still not got it to boot yet )-:
Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: Wilhelm Bertalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot problems
> > 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
>
