booting from lilo!!
 

Hi. I have got three systems:
-) Windows XP on /dev/hda1
-) SLackware on /dev/hda7
-) RedHat on /dev/hdd1

I tried to boot this three systems from one bootloader installed either on hda or hdd. But it doesn't work unfortunetely. I show you below my lilo.conf:
# Start LILO global section
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
boot = /dev/hda
map=/boot/map
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
prompt
timeout = 50
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
vga = 771
# 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
# ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
disk=/dev/hda bios=0x80
disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x81
disk=/dev/hdd bios=0x82

# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins

image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda7
label = Slackware-9.0
# append="hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins

image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hdd1
label = RedHat_9.0
# append="hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# DOS bootable partition config begins

other = /dev/hda1
label = Windows_XP
table = /dev/hda
# DOS bootable partition config ends

On the response - after booting - i've recieved something like this:
L 01 010010 01 010 10 - and a few of rows similar signs
When i had my lilo bootloader on hdd there was no of these signs, but i still couldn't get to XP (in this situation without any troble i cuold get to slackware and redhat)
When i reinstalled MBR with diskette wiht fdisk /MBR my XP started to work but this is not a good resolving (i want to have a choise which system i want to get to)

Could you help me????? GREAT THANKS FOR ANY HELP

What ahppens when you run 'lilo' as root? Do you gat an erro message? If not, does LILO work correctly now?

marek
 

After executing lilo (/sbin/lilo i mean) i have information: Warning - Unable to determine video adapter in use in present system, and lilo adding all the three systems, that's all :(
and after rebooting i have situation i described

Installing LILO to the MBR might help... I got something similar when I first installed it (I got "L 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 ..."), and that was all gone once I installed it to the MBR.

Can't hurt to try right?

:)

-zsejk

You don't need append="hdc=ide-scsi" in your global section. The append goes with the LINUX sections.

Since you have Redhat on the first partition or on /dev/hdd1, you can use that for booting. I suggest you leave Windows partitions alone, but fix the mbr for the Windows partition to make it happy. In your lilo config file use map to flip-flop the drive addressing when booting to Windows. I don't think you need table for Windows too. You can find out if the location for table is correct by
/sbin/lilo -T table=/dev/hda
There are others for /sbin/lilo -T.

Use the verbose option to see what /sbin/lilo is doing.