[761] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Lilo question...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skull)
Thu Oct 24 14:09:45 1996
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:05:35 -0400
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From: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
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>> 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
>
>Never tried having the swap in the first partition. I usually put a
>small / or /boot partition first, then work out from there. Swap is
>often (for me) in the second or third partition.
>
>My RedHat 4.0 installation is _FRESH_ (01:15 in the morning here, I got
>it last night) on a pure SCSI system with three fixed HDD's and 1
>Iomega external SCSI. Installed Lilo 19 on MBR, 3 images + DOS/Win95.
>Have you looked at your virtual terminals (F5 - F7) after running lilo?
> What messages?
None, at all... just plain empty virtual console, untouched, unharmed, as
if it was just booted. Should I see something that I am not?
Darron
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