im going to a movie il be back later

Delete the section labeled "Linux_Compiled", all four lines. Then try again. Obviously this does not exist.

now this comes
Configuration NOT ok. LILO said:
LILO version 22.4.1 (test mode), Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2002 John Coffman
Released 27-Jan-2003 and compiled at 19:45:45 on Mar 9 2003.
Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Using MENU secondary loader
Calling map_insert_data
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz
Added vmlinuz *
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.20
Added 2.4.20
Boot other: /dev/hda1, on /dev/hda, loader CHAIN
Added NT
Boot other: /dev/hdb1, on /dev/hdb, loader CHAIN
Fatal: Duplicate label "NT"

Then change the second "NT" label to "NT2"

ok now the lilo is okey but what shall i do next is the prob solved

i still get the message that its not a valid block device

here is my lilo.conf (when i check it it is okey)

boot="/dev/hda"
prompt
timeout="10"
append = "cdrom=ide-scsi"

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

image=/boot/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.20
label="2.4.20"
root=/dev/hda2
read-only

other=/dev/hda1
label="NT"

other=/dev/hdb1
label="NT2"

when i type lsmod (as super user)
ide-scsi is listed

but the brop now is mounting
and i dont now if the cdrom is hdc or hdb i think it is /dev/cdrom but i cant mount that beacause when i do
the message about its not a valid boot device

after i edited the lilo.conf and it turned out alright exept mounting the resolution is much smaller and the penguin at start up is gone

what shall i do with the mounting and the penguin and the resolution

The framebuffer device needs a line in lilo.conf that states;

vga=791

At least that is for 1024x768x65k color depth. I do not know what you had before because the lilo.conf that you posted did not have that line at all.

Where did you come up with that append statement? It should not state anything regarding "cdrom=". It should be as follows;

append = "hdd=ide-scsi"
or
append = "hdc=ide-scsi"
or
append = "hdb=ide-scsi"

You have to use the one that is correct for your configuration.

After the changes are made then "lilo" again to write the new boot record. and reboot.

Post back and we will see what is working, etc.

/dev/cdrom is a link to the correct device (well, its supposed to be) so you could try
and it should return something along the lines of
Its this hdc which needs to be in the append (as Excalibur and I have both said) and then it should all be working. Once that's done, you'll need to alter where the /dev/cdrom link points since the kernel will no longer think of the cdrom being at /dev/hdc, it will think of it as being at /dev/scd0 instead. Don't alter the append line, its this which causes the renaming as is needed, but you will need to alter the /dev/cdrom link and /etc/fstab possibly.

HTH

Alex

when i wrote the code you sendt me webtoe it was hdc1
and i changed from cdrom hdc1 but when i try to mount i get
the message that hdc1 is not in fstab should i
switch from cdrom to hdc1 in fstab
???


The vga is now working fine

Killi, the correct name is hdc, the numbers are only for partitions on hard drives. Once you have a correct lilo.conf (don't forget to run lilo after changing lilo.conf), reboot and login, then do "dmesg | grep scsi", and look for something like the following,
Make note of the last line, /dev/sr0 is my cdrw.
The next step is to link your scsi emulated cdrw to /dev/cdrom, first we remove the cdrom entry "rm /dev/cdrom", then we link the new device (sr0 in my case) with "ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom".
You should now be able to mount your cds.

Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz ro root=302 hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
this is mine should i link scsi0 or sr0

and in fstab on /dev/cdrom it was owner but i switched to user
and if its user can i not the root mount cds

ok i done thx

but about fstab
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,pico,ro 0 0 thats my cdrom shall i change the pico after noauto beacause befor it was owner but if i change it to
user could every one mount cds then

Yes, change it to users, here is what I have,