Re: [PLUG] lilo question

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 07:00:47PM -0500, basic wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:39:34PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > 1. Whatever else is going on, lilo just doesn't seem to want to let me
> > boot from my hard drive. This has been the case since I installed my
> > latest copy of linux (RH 6.2). I used to be able to boot off of my
> > hard drive in days past (but then it was /dev/sda).
> > 
> > I've attached a copy of lilo.conf. But, basically, you should know
> > that I've got two hard drives, /dev/sda and /dev/hda. I want to boot
> > off of /dev/hda5. I use the much smaller scsi drive for swap and some
> > extra storage. It's historical.
> > 
> dear Jeff:
>    you must specify a hard disk partition

So I change the first line to read

   boot = /dev/hda1

or

  boot = /dev/hda5

and then run /sbin/lilo (no args).

Neither of these has any discernable effect: I'm still told no
available partitions for botting on HDD. No sign of lilo.

My choice of boot values above is based on the following:

$ df -k 
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5             39294220   8679716  28618432  23% /
/dev/hda1                23302      7070     15029  32% /boot
/dev/sda1              2885780    857684   1881508  31% /home2
$

Note, also, that

# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sda

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 522 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1             1       365   2931831   83  Linux
/dev/sda2           366       522   1261102+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5           366       522   1261071   82  Linux swap

Command (m for help): q

# /sbin/fdisk /dev/hda

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4982 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1         3     24066   83  Linux
/dev/hda2             4      4982  39993817+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5             4      4973  39921493+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6          4974      4982     72261   82  Linux swap

Command (m for help): q

# 




> > boot = /dev/hda
> > timeout = 50
> > linear
> > prompt
> >   default = linux
> >   vga = normal
> >   read-only
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp
> >   label = linux
> >   initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0smp.img
> >   root = /dev/hda5
> > image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> >   label = linux-up
> >   initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
> >   root = /dev/hda5

-- 
 Jeff

 Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>