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Hi all,

Please help me with this Lilo problem.

I set up a dual-boot of win98 and Rh 7.2 using Lilo.  All my Windows
stuff is in hard disk 1 (/dev/hda), and Linux is in a separate disk
/dev/hdb.  The /boot dir is in /dev/hdb1.  Lilo was installed in the
MBR of hda (boot=/dev/hda).  All worked fine.

Then a few days ago, I replaced the Windows disk (/dev/hda) with a
larger one and used Ghost to copy everything in.  Then run  /sbin/lilo
again.  Now when I reboot,  all I get is one "L".

According to the Lilo doc, seeing one 'L' means  /boot/boot.b failed
to load. Any idea how I can fix it?  Do I need a new boot.b?

Thanks.

-al

Quote:>Hi all,

>Please help me with this Lilo problem.

>I set up a dual-boot of win98 and Rh 7.2 using Lilo.  All my Windows
>stuff is in hard disk 1 (/dev/hda), and Linux is in a separate disk
>/dev/hdb.  The /boot dir is in /dev/hdb1.  Lilo was installed in the
>MBR of hda (boot=/dev/hda).  All worked fine.

>Then a few days ago, I replaced the Windows disk (/dev/hda) with a
>larger one and used Ghost to copy everything in.  Then run  /sbin/lilo
>again.  Now when I reboot,  all I get is one "L".

The second stage loader is not being loaded.

Very possibly BIOS device codes have changed in an unexpected way.

What is your output from "lilo -v5 >log.txt" when you install the new boot
loader?

--John

LILO 22.3.2 source code at:
  http://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo

Thanks.  You are right.  As I went thru the lilo doc, I remembered
that lilo relies on BIOS info, so I went thru the BIOS settings and
found that, for some reason, the second hard disk was turned off in
the BIOS.  As soon as I turned it back on, lilo worked fine again.

-al