I did go to thearchive of the mailing list and didn't see it. Repost it please.
>From: Ivan Offalich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives. >Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:01:05 -0600 > >Actually I did post my /etc/lilo.conf file earlier today. If you didn't >receive it through this list let me know and I'll repost it. > >Ivan. > >At 03:15 PM 12/17/01 +0000, you wrote: >>Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >>X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by >>smtp.mandrakesoft.com id fBHFHJtC011754 >> >> >>Post your LILO file >> >>But I had something somewhat like your error when setting up two HD with >>two different ditros. >> >>HDA is my e-smith(firewall) and I have Mandrake on HDB. When installing >>mandrake on hdb it wrote the to mbr of hda. I would get those 01010101000 >>messages at boot time. What I needed to do was boot using a bootfloppy, >>into HDA, run lilo and that fix the problem. But what I had to do to boot >>from both HD's was to copy the /BOOT from hdb to a tmp directory on hda >>and fix the lilo.conf file hda to read the correct files for mandrake, but >>did indicate that harddrive for mandrake was hdb instead of hda. Run lilo >>again and all is well. I can boot into hda or hdb. >> >>I think the problem is that in the install of mandrake it ASSUMES that >>it's been installed HDA and not HDB, so when it created the lilo boot it >>didn't so any error checking that the image files and kernals are not >>found in hda. >> >>If you can swap drives, so that Linux will become hda and windowz hdb. >> >>>From: Ivan Offalich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Subject: Re: [newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives. >>>Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 08:56:55 -0600 >>> >>>In addition to my previous post... >>>Here are my boot options from my BIOS. >>>First Boot Device: Floppy >>>Second Boot Device: Hard Disk >>>Third Boot Device: Disabled >>>Fourth Boot Device: Disabled >>> >>>The only possible choices to set these to are: >>>Disabled >>>Floppy >>>Hard Disk >>>Network >>> >>>As I had mentioned in my previous post there isn't a way to set any of >>>these to the second hard drive. Setting it to "Hard Disk" assumes that >>>the >>>Primary Master is the boot drive. This is the newest version available >>>for >>>my BIOS. >>> >>>If any additional information can be of help, please let me know, >>>Ivan. >>> >>> >>>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >>>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >> >> >>_________________________________________________________________ >>Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. >>http://www.hotmail.com >> >> >> >> >>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
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