[757] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Lilo question...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skull)
Thu Oct 24 13:49:24 1996
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:43:16 -0400
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From: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
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>> Ok, one last thing, I ran the lilo v17 quickinst shell script, and it said
>> something about missing 'activate', which I presume is something to activate
>> my boot partition or something? Perhaps this is my problem that I don't
have it
>> and since this machine never had anything on it before Linux that it needs to
>> do something wierd that only activate does??? I guess perhaps I'm grabbing at
>> straws, but I'd like to get the damn lilo to work. So far, other than this,
>> I've stumped everyone who has tried to help me.
>>
>> Darron
>
>My guess is you need to run fdisk to mark your root partition active.
>You can verify this by displaying the partition table with the fdisk "p"
>command. You should have something like this:
I hate to shoot this idea down so fast, but well, simply, I've tried that
many times, it doesn't seem to make a difference whether or not the
boot * is on a partition or not, I'm beginning to wonder if LILO/redhat 4
can't handle having the first partition as swap at least on a fresh install,
as I did it with slackware a while back, then upgraded to redhat 3.0.3, this
is a new machine with only redhat 4, and it doesn't work. Kind of wierd eh?
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hda1 * 121 121 425 153720 83 Linux native
>/dev/hda2 426 426 466 20664 82 Linux swap
>/dev/hda3 467 467 2484 1017072 83 Linux native
>/dev/hda4 1 1 120 60448+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
>
>I have LILO installed in the superblock of my root partition so I can
>boot DOS on the rare occasions I need to. Use the fdisk "a" command to
>mark your active partition if none is.
I'd install it whereever it works, IF it works, which it doesn't. No matter
whether I've tried the superblock or MBR, it doesn't make a difference either.
Nothing I do ever errors on anything I run, configure etc, it just doesn't boot.
lilo -q looks fine, lilo -v looks fine, partitions are marked boot, lilo.conf
is setup proper, etc etc. Its beginning to look like I can't use LILO, even
though I like it and have used it in the past. Could an LBA hard disk have any
effect on anything like this? Has anyone else been able to do a fresh install
of redhat 4 with lilo and the first partition being Swap???
Darron
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