[Repost] At 08:10 AM 12/17/01 -0600, I wrote: >Since this will be a long post I <snip>ped everything previous. > >I will post my IDE chain and my /etc/lilo.conf file and hopefully that >will help everyone with determining what exactly I'm what I'm missing. ;) > >Primary IDE Master: 6.4 GIG EIDE Harddrive (aka hda) >3 partitions C:, E:, and F: in Windoze > >Primary IDE Slave: Iomega Zip 100 MB (I keep a disk in there due to the >fact that certain times there's one expected, this alleviates confusion.) >This shows up as D: in Windoze. > >Secondary IDE Master: 20.0 GIG EIDE Harddrive (aka hdc) >4 Partitions >/ (aka hdc1) >Swap (aka hdc5) >/usr (aka hdc6) >/home (aka hdc7) > >Secondary IDE Slave: Plexwriter CD-RW >Drive G: in Windoze > >My motherboard/BIOS does not support CD-ROM booting. >AFAIK, hda is the primary boot device. I will double check my BIOS after >sending this, but I believe that my BIOS doesn't have a method of adding >the second harddrive (hdc) to the boot chain, only the floppy drive or the >Primary IDE Master. > >Below is my /etc/lilo.conf file. One note about it, when I installed >Linux, I setup a password with LILO. Now that I think about it, it never >asked me for the password upon boot. I've added #comments below, these >comments are not actually part of the file, I added them for this post. > >/etc/lilo.conf ># Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too. >password=************** # I'm not telling. ;) >boot=/dev/hda # If I understand correctly this should be telling LILO >to boot off hda >map=/boot/map # If I understand correctly this is where LILO stores the >info on where each OS is and how to boot it >install=/boot/boot.b # I'm not sure I understand this line >vga=791 # So it looks nicer when it boots >default=linux # This is the default OS for my LILO configuration, it will >boot the image labeled as "linux" >keytable=/boot/us.klt # This loads my keyboard configuration >lba32 # This helps LILO (or is it Linux) work with my BIOS to see my hard >drives correctly >prompt # This allows me to choose which OS to load when I start my computer >timeout=50 # If I don't choose, LILO loads the default after 5 seconds >message=/boot/message # LILO displays the text of this file upon starting >menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw # I don't understand this line either, but I >believe this defines the look of the LILO prompt ># The last section defines the bootable OSes, defines their location, and >gives each one a name >image=/boot/vmlinuz-secure > label=linux > root=/dev/hdc1 > append=" mem=128M hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide=floppy" > vga=788 > read-only >image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=linux-up > root=/dev/hdc1 > append=" mem=128M hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-floppy" > read-only >image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=failsafe > root=/dev/hdc1 > append=" mem=128M hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-floppy failsafe" > read-only >other=/dev/hda1 > label=windows > table=/dev/hda > >That should do it. I appreciate everyone helping me sort this out. >Ivan. > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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