[wplug] Lilo problem in Mandrake 8.0

[jjlasalle]

I make a small (300 MB)  partition at the front of my hard drive.  I mount 
this as /boot. This ensures /boot is below the 1024 cylinder. If you don't 
want to reinstall, try getting the latest version of lilo -- although I 
would think Mandrake 8.0 would have it.

At 11:19 PM 5/27/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I have installed Mandrake 8.0 on my windows 98 box. I bought a second hard
>disk to dedicate to linux. I installed linux on the new drive hdb. Windows
>remained on hda which is the boot disk.
>
>I rebooted after installing lilo during the mandrake install. I got LI
>followed by repeated 01's. I rebooted with my boot disk and all was fine. I
>removed lilo with fdisk /mbr from my Windows 98 startup disk. I now boot into
>Windows 98 unless I have my boot floppy.
>
>Here is the lilo.conf that the mandrake installation program produced.  I
>cannot see the mistake. I have a separate boot partition /boot = /dev/hdb5.
>The linux-nonfb and failsafe were mandrake's idea.
>
>boot=/dev/hda
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>vga=normal
>default=windows
>keytable=/boot/us.klt
>lba32
>prompt
>timeout=50
>message=/boot/message
>menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
>image=/boot/vmlinuz
>         label=linux
>         root=/dev/hdb7
>         initrd=/boot/initrd.img
>         append=" hdd=ide-scsi quiet"
>         vga=788
>         read-only
>image=/boot/vmlinuz
>         label=linux-nonfb
>         root=/dev/hdb7
>         initrd=/boot/initrd.img
>         append=" hdd=ide-scsi"
>         read-only
>image=/boot/vmlinuz
>         label=failsafe
>         root=/dev/hdb7
>         initrd=/boot/initrd.img
>         append=" hdd=ide-scsi failsafe"
>         read-only
>other=/dev/hda1
>         label=windows
>         table=/dev/hda
>other=/dev/fd0
>         label=floppy
>         unsafe
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