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Hello all. I have a strange problem with (perhaps?) LILO.
I have two disks, and I had to reinstall on the first because the
old disk died. The new unit is a Quantum 4.3 G.
Linux, of course, works perfectly. The problem is DOS 6.2 . It won't
boot; every time I receive the message (translated from italian)

non system disk or disk problem, replace and strike any key

Needless to say that the partition is OK, with its COMMAND.COM and
io.sys and msdos.sys . If I boot from a diskette, all is fine.
Needless to say that Dosemu and Wine work perfectly.

I have tried everything, I have tried also making again the partition
with DOS fdisk and format (because of the DOS 6.x caveat) to no avail.

Here is fdisk's output of /dev/hda:

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 524 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *      422      422      476   441787+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2            1        1      421  3381651   83  Linux native
/dev/hda3          477      477      523   377527+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5          477      477      523   377496    6  DOS 16-bit >=32M

The only doubt I have is that the DOS partition is not the first on a disk
larger than 2.1 G, but in this case I should have a problem when
formatting
also becasue of FAT. Moreover, the fact that the DOS partition is not the
first
should be OK because I had a similar setup on the previous disk without
trouble
(except for the fact that it was a 1.6 G disk).

Have ad excerpt of lilo.config for LILO v1.9 also:
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
append="aha152x=0x340,11,7"
boot = /dev/hda
#compact        # faster, but won't work on all systems.
delay = 50
vga = normal    # force sane state
ramdisk = 0     # paranoia setting
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /vmlinuz
  root = /dev/hda2
  label = linux
  read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for
checking
...
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# DOS bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hda1
  label = dos
  table = /dev/hda
# DOS bootable partition config ends

I am out of ideas. If anyone could help me, I would appreciate it.

System list:

Slakware 96, kernel 2.0.30, X3.3.1, 64 megs ram, K6-200,
hda: Quantum 4.3 G
hdb: Quantum 3.2 G
hdc: CD Pioneer 12x

Thank you in advance.

Quote:

> Hello all. I have a strange problem with (perhaps?) LILO.
> I have two disks, and I had to reinstall on the first because the
> old disk died. The new unit is a Quantum 4.3 G.
> Linux, of course, works perfectly. The problem is DOS 6.2 . It won't
> boot; every time I receive the message (translated from italian)

> non system disk or disk problem, replace and strike any key

> Needless to say that the partition is OK, with its COMMAND.COM and
> io.sys and msdos.sys . If I boot from a diskette, all is fine.
> Needless to say that Dosemu and Wine work perfectly.

        To correct this, copy SYS.COM to the floppy you use to DOS boot.

        Then, boot with the floppy and type "sys c:"

        That should fix it.

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"The world will never suffer from a lack of stupidity."

Reinhard

Eric

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Eric Ladner                    Oracle 7.X DBA and SysAdmin on    

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If your dos partition is not on the first disk, (/dev/hdb1 for example)
the lilo stanza for it will look like this:

other=/dev/hdb1
        table=/dev/hdb
        loader=/boot/any_d.b
        label=dos

This assumes you are using a 2.0 kernel...
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Eric Ladner                    Oracle 7.X DBA and SysAdmin on    

#include <disclamer.h>      favorite, Linux: It works for me.
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