[ILUG] lilo problems

[John Diamond]

Another way of doing this using the nt bootloader

http://x30.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=315549962&CONTEXT=950653589.1477705757&hitn
um=11
jd
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerard Gorman <gormo at itc.nuigalway.ie>
To: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: 15 February 2000 22:13
Subject: [ILUG] lilo problems


> Hi, (more problems)
>
> I'm putting rh6.1 on a laptop (armada m700). I have the partition table
> and lilo.conf
> appended to the mail.  The problem I ran into is that when I reboot, the
> laptop complains
> about Non-system disk or disk error. I have been hopping my head off
> this all evening and I ain't getting anywhere. I'd nearly settle for a
> boot disk option now but for that vga option I'd have to keep adding on!
> All suggestions are welcome!!
>
> Cheers,
> g    (mighty pissed cos nothing is working and is being presently kicked
> out by security guards!)
>
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 839 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
>
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1             1       339   2562808+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2           340       474   1020600    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda3           475       542    514080    6  FAT16
> /dev/hda4           543       839   2245320    5  Extended
> /dev/hda5           543       586    332608+  82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda6   *       587       800   1617808+  83  Linux
>
> and I have lilo.conf as follows:
>
> boot=/dev/hda6
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> root=/dev/hda6
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
>         label=linux
>         vga=791
>         read-only
> other=/dev/hda1
>         label=NT
>         table=/dev/hda
>
>
>
>
>
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