[99017] in RedHat Linux List
RE: 5.2 and LILO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Conner, Tom)
Wed Nov 11 17:24:33 1998
From: "Conner, Tom" <Tom.Conner@ssc.msu.edu>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:19:16 -0500
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Here is more information.
At the installation of LILO I selected install in the master boot record.
The error message was: "An error occured during step 'Install bootloader' of
the install"
My lilo.conf file is:
boot=/dev/hda
timeout=50
prompt
vga=normal
root=/dev/hdb2
read-only
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
label=linux
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/hdb5
label=dos
table=/dev/hdb
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
Any ideas? Thanks.
Tom Conner
> ----------
> From: Jan Carlson[SMTP:janc@iname.com]
> Reply To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Sent: Monday, November 09, 1998 8:11 PM
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: 5.2 and LILO
>
> "Conner, Tom" wrote:
>
> > I upgraded RH5.1 to RH5.2 from ftp.cdrom.com and everything seemed to go
> > well untill the installation of LILO. It would not install LILO in the
> > master boot partition. I have two hard drives. The first is a dos
> drive
> > (win95) and the second is divided between dos (hdb5) and linux. If I
> > restart the computer (a Dell 133 Pentium) it will boot win95 at the LILO
> > prompt. Trying to boot linux does not work. It simply hangs. I assume
> > this is the 5.1 LILO. Using the boot disk that you can create when you
> > upgrade will boot 5.2 and it seems to function normally. Any
> suggestions
> > for being able to boot Linux from LILO?
>
> You want LILO to install in the MBR,
> not in the boot sector of the linux partition, normally.
>
>
> Boot rh5.2 from diskette, and run lilo:
> # /sbin/lilo
> If it gives no errors, it should work.
> If it complains about cylinder 1024, add a line into
> /etc/lilo.conf containing one word.
> linear
> That often cures the problem.
>
> Let us see specific error messages from lilo,
> if it still gives any.
>
> Here is my /etc/lilo.conf for rh5.2, in case it helps
> I have 2 scsi disks,
>
> boot=/dev/sda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=100
> default=linux
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sda6
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.0.36-0.7.img
> read-only
> other=/dev/sda1
> label=dos
> table=/dev/sda
> /etc/lilo.conf (END)
>
>
> --
>
> Jan Carlson
> janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
> Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
>
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>
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