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Re: 5.2 and LILO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Nov 11 18:01:47 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:54:43 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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"Conner, Tom" wrote:
> 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
First dos section:
>
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=dos
> table=/dev/hda
second dos section:
>
> other=/dev/hdb5
> label=dos
> table=/dev/hdb
> map-drive=0x80
> to=0x81
> map-drive=0x81
> to=0x80
It has two entries with the 'dos' label.
Try changing one of the dos labels to dos2,
or removing one or both dos sections
and running lilo again.
/sbin/lilo
If that fails, try commenting out
everything at and below other = /dev/hda1 .
and run /sbin/lilo again, and reboot.
To make a Linux emergency boot disk, type:
/sbin/mkbootdisk
You should make one asap. If you have one
that works, don't overwrite it!
>
>
> 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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