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apax	07-21-2003 05:46 AM

booting from lilo...

I'm having troubles with booting a quite old hard drive, it's a QUANTUM Bigfoot actually...

I try to boot the hard drive, wich is hdb1, but it chooses to boot hda1 instead...

My lilo.conf:

boot="/dev/hda"
prompt
timeout="20"
message=/boot/message
root=/dev/hda2
vga="7"

image="/boot/vmlinuz"
label="Linux Slackware"
root="/dev/hda2"
append="hdd=ide-scsi"
read-only

image="/boot/vmlinuz-forever"
label="Slack-standard"
root="/dev/hda2"
read-only

other=/dev/hda1
label="Games"

other=/dev/hdb1
label="Games II"

what's wrong?

MasterC

07-21-2003 06:52 AM

Well what is "Games II"?

What OS, what distro, what's it running...

Cool

dukeem

07-21-2003 07:27 AM

Re: booting from lilo...

Quote:

Originally posted by apax
I'm having troubles with booting a quite old hard drive, it's a QUANTUM Bigfoot actually...

I try to boot the hard drive, wich is hdb1, but it chooses to boot hda1 instead...

be shure, that your hdb1 is bootable

apax	07-21-2003 12:32 PM

Games II is Win98, and Games is WinXPpro

I guess that it's bootable, beacuse, I tryed out different jumper selections, and in one situation it bootet up just win98, wich means that i accidently made the QUANTUM master, since it is connected to the end of the IDE cable...

If I edit lilo so that "Games" also boots /dev/hdb1 all that happends is that lilo prints "Opening Games" (or something like that...), when I chose "Games II"

I'm confused...

Aussie

07-21-2003 06:40 PM

Try the following,

Code:

 other=/dev/hda1

 label="Games" 

 table = /dev/hda



 other=/dev/hdb1 

 label="Games II"

 table = /dev/hdb

And the append line should be in the global section, here is my lilo.conf for comparison.

Code:

# LILO configuration file

# generated by 'liloconfig'

#

# Start LILO global section

append="hda=ide-scsi"

boot = /dev/hde

#compact        # faster, but won't work on all systems.

prompt

timeout = 50

lba32

vga = 773

# ramdisk = 0    # paranoia setting

# End LILO global section

# Linux bootable partition config begins

image = /boot/vmlinuz

  root = /dev/hde3

  label = slackware

  read-only

image = /boot/vmlinuz.old

  root = /dev/hde3

  label = slackware.old

  read-only

image = /boot/vmlinuz.sata

  root = /dev/hde3

  label = slackware.sata

  read-only

# Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking

# Linux bootable partition config ends

# DOS bootable partition config begins

other = /dev/hde1

  label = Windows

  table = /dev/hde

# DOS bootable partition config ends

apax	07-22-2003 04:53 AM

I've solved the problem with why "Games" is booted instead of "Games II"... Proably lilo dislikes spaces...

But the main problem is still left... When i try to boot "blaha" (previously "Games II") nothing happends but that lilo prints:

Loading blaha...

And then nothing...

Another question... What does vga=773 mean?

Aussie

07-22-2003 05:13 AM

vga=773 means I get a 1024x768x256 VESA framebuffer console.
They go like this,

Normal VGA console
vga = normal

VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
vga=791

VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k
vga=790

VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
vga=773

VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
vga=788

VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k
vga=787

VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
vga=771

VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k
vga=785

VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k
vga=784

VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256
vga=769

Have a good read of file:/usr/doc/lilo-22.4.1/README and the man pages for lilo and lilo.conf for a full explanation of what lilo can do.

slakmagik

07-22-2003 05:19 AM

Looks like blaha may be hosed. Can you boot it with a bootdisk? vga=773 is your framebuffer settings 1024x768x256.

--It took me six minutes to check lilo.conf? Oops.

apax	07-22-2003 10:20 AM

A friend of mine said that i could have something to do with that windows wants to be on the first partition on the first drive?

I still do'nt have a clue about how to solve the problem... Ehh...

And, (sorry for asking...) what do you mean with hosed?

MasterC

07-22-2003 11:20 AM

Ain't that the truth, certainly glad you have friends that don't let things slip like I do ;)

Try adding this to the entry for the one not working:

Code:

map-drive=0x80

to=0x81

map-drive=0x81

to=0x80

Save, rerun lilo, reboot and see if it's working now...

Cool

apax	07-22-2003 04:41 PM

thanks a lot...
It all works perfectly now...

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