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by **Luca** » Mon, 05 Mar 2001 04:28:10

I just set up Mandrake 7.2 as the second OS on my system (the other being
Wind 98). I'm trying to get Lilo to work so I can boot either OS at
startup.
My setup:
Windows on hde
Linux on hdg (I'm using an Abit KT7a-raid mb - the hard drives are each
master on the raid controller's (Highpoint HPT370) two channels. However,
no raid is set up. The drives work independently.

I can boot Linux with a floppy, however the kernel is loaded from the
floppy. Once booted, I can access all drives with no problems.

lilo.conf reads like this:
boot = /dev/hde
map = /boot/map
timeout = 50
linear
prompt
message = /boot/message
default = win
vga = normal
append = "hdc=ide-scsi"
root = /dev/hdg6
read-only
install=/boot/boot.b
keytable=/boot/us.klt
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image = /boot/vmlinuz-secure
label = linux
vga = 791
append = " hdc=ide-scsi"
image = /boot/vmlinuz
label = linux-up
append = " hdc=ide-scsi"
image = /boot/vmlinuz
label = failsafe

The file was created by mandrake setup. I tried to change "linear" to
"lba32" with no success.

I thank you in advance for any help. Please give instructions in detail
since I'm fairly new to Linux.

Luca

by **Steve Tayl** » Mon, 05 Mar 2001 21:53:52

Quote:>I just set up Mandrake 7.2 as the second OS on my system (the other being
>Wind 98). I'm trying to get Lilo to work so I can boot either OS at
>startup.
>My setup:
>Windows on hde
>Linux on hdg (I'm using an Abit KT7a-raid mb - the hard drives are each
>master on the raid controller's (Highpoint HPT370) two channels. However,
>no raid is set up. The drives work independently.

>I can boot Linux with a floppy, however the kernel is loaded from the
>floppy. Once booted, I can access all drives with no problems.

>lilo.conf reads like this:
>boot = /dev/hde
>map = /boot/map
>timeout = 50
>linear
>prompt
> message = /boot/message
> default = win
> vga = normal
> append = "hdc=ide-scsi"
> root = /dev/hdg6
> read-only
>install=/boot/boot.b
>keytable=/boot/us.klt
>menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
>image = /boot/vmlinuz-secure
> label = linux
> vga = 791
> append = " hdc=ide-scsi"
>image = /boot/vmlinuz
> label = linux-up
> append = " hdc=ide-scsi"
>image = /boot/vmlinuz
> label = failsafe

>The file was created by mandrake setup. I tried to change "linear" to
>"lba32" with no success.

>I thank you in advance for any help. Please give instructions in detail
>since I'm fairly new to Linux.

>Luca

If you run fdisk /mbr from your win98 command prompt this will fix
your lilo problem... Or rather wipe it so that you can at least start
linux to re-install lilo ( I prefer loadlin as it is more stable and
won't get mucked about with by MS thinking it knows best what you
want...

I use a small (10M) dos 6.22 partition with loadlin and a few useful
utils and drivers to boot linux... I also use win95 and SuSE 5.2 on
one 1GB Hd... It's a tight squeeze but who needs all those bells and
whistles anyway....

Very Computer

Lilo stops on LI

Lilo stops on LI

Lilo stops on LI