[670] in RedHat Linux List
Re: LILO error: LOADER for BIOS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (drink)
Thu Oct 24 00:03:00 1996
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:56:32 -0400
From: drink <drink@cloud9.net>
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RHS Linux User wrote:
>
> > > I had same problem installing to super block on root partition.
> >
> > So, were you able to get around this? This is my first shot at linux, so, any
> > details that you could give me I would really appreciate. Thanks.
> >
>
> sure I was, (took me a couple of minutes to remember how, but I did ;)
>
> Just skip the lilo install, then boot off the boot disk and at boot:
> prompt type:
> linux root=/dev/???? where ???? is your root partition like sda1
>
> Now you can login as root. You will need to create from scratch (at least
> I did) your lilo.conf file. It is in /etc. You should probably just copy
> the sample one out of the RedHat install guide (assuming you bought it).
>
> Only changes you need off of the sample is change the partition /dev/?? to
> whatever your root partition is.
>
> Check to see that you have a vmlinuz in /boot, if not mount floppy boot
> disk and copy vmlinuz to /boot.
>
> since lilo.conf points to the vmlinuz file on your root partition you
> should have no trouble typing:
> lilo
> at the prompt, this makes your system boot correctly in general.
>
> There are other ways to do this and I brushed over a few details you may
> need to do other things if you plan to do things like boot other OSs with
> LILO.
>
> Email me personally if you like and I can help.
I had hte same problem, same award bios... I just deleted the second
part of my lilo.conf, there was one for hda and one for hdb, I just
deleted the one for hdb (which happened to be win95 but I dont' use lilo
to boot it). No need to start from scratch, the one you've got should
work fine, I'd attach the one I've got working but I'm not at my
machine.
Craig
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