Hi, this is the first time I posted a question on this list.
I'm also fairly new to Linux. I have (succesfully) installed RH 5.0 on a
pentium 200 MHz with an ASUS motherboard, a Matrox Mystique (8 MB)
videocard, a 6.4 GB (Fireball) and a 2.0 GB hard drive. Linux is installed
on a logical partition (hda8) - at least the root is. I also have Win95
and NT 4.0 running on the same HD and that's the reason I chose to install
LILO on my root partition. I discovered a trick to put LILO in the
bootlist of my NT-bootmenu in a HOWTO somewhere which requires me to do the
following:
lilo (to be sure)
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos1
dd if=/dev/hda8 of=/mnt/dos1/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
umount /mnt/dos1
My lilo.conf looks like this:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
the 3 lines above could be a little bit wrong (I can't check
right
now), but I'm reasonnably sure that they are not the problem
prompt
linear
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.31
label=linux
root=/dev/hda8
read-only
Now, you got all the information I can think off that you would need. So I
can tell you what the problem is: when I start Linux from my NT-bootmenu
all I get is L_ (and the underscore is blinking) and then the HD-light
stays on while everthing else does nothing. I can start Linux from the
bootdisk with the line: vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8. Everthing works just fine
after that but I really would appreciate it if I could get the same result
from my bootmenu.
Thanks a lot!
Kris Janssens
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