Hey all. Been a Slackware guy and FreeBSD nut for awhile yet this one I'm at my wits end with. I have a basic system 2 PATA, 2 SATA on an ECS NForce3 250 mobo which I intend to make a fileserver/webserver however any attempts to get anything to boot by itself other then a live cd fails.

The sata drives are storage only, /dev/hda is my linux drive and /dev/hdb is storage only. Everything is ext3 except on my last trial which I made a 100M /boot partition with ext2 on /dev/hda1. Root is /dev/hda2.

I've tried everything I can think of, and the furthest I've gotten has been Lilo 22.x slacks in which it sits endlessly. I only got that after modifying the lilo.conf file to force it a bit. Otherwise is hung on L and eventually came up ID Duplication errors.

I've tried the lilo -z -M /dev/hda mbr.. I made an initrd adding ext3.

I've never had this much trouble installing anything. Perhaps I shouldn't be too surprised as FreeBSD refused to boot up the install disc.

I'm guessing there's something funky about the hardware however there has to be a fix or workaround.

Any help is appreciated!

lilo.conf:

boot = /dev/hda
verbose = 2
lba32
noraid
static-BIOS-codes
disk = /dev/hda bios = 0x80
vga = 773

image = /boot/vmlinuz
initrd = /boot/initrd.gz
root = /dev/hda2
label = slack
read-only

-eof-

Welcome to LQ!

My opinion is "less is better." Try commenting
then run "lilo" and see if it will boot. And check your initrd image.

Might help if you'll boot one time and post the exact error(s).