On Wed, 31 May 2000, Chad W. Skinner wrote:
> I am getting my first taste of frustration with linux lately. I had a hard
> disk go bad in my notebook so I ordered a replacement to install only linux
> on. The problem is that lilo will not come up at boot time.
>
> I partitioned my disk as follows
>
> /dev/hda1 Suspend Partition
> /dev/hda2 /
> /dev/hda3 swap
> /dev/hda4 extended
> /dev/hda5 /usr
> /dev/hda6 /var
> /dev/hda7 /home
>
[SNIP]
>
> After running lilo at the command prompt I get the message that lilo has
> added linux, but upon rebooting the portable states that I need to enter a
> boot disk. If I insert the installation CD, reboot and type "linux
> root=/dev/hda2 initrd=" at the command prompt the system starts and mounts
> all of my partitions.
>
> Also I am running redhat 6.2 and windows 98 SE on my original HD and did not
> have any problems, Lilo installed fine.
>
[SNIP]
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Chad
>
Go into fdisk, or cfdisk, and mark the second partation as bootable.
Your BIOS is looking at the partation table, and is not seeing any
bootable partation, so it doesn't load the boot loaded (LILO) from the
hard disk. Note - this is BIOS dependent. some machines boot just fine
without a bootable partation, while other give an error.
Mikkel
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