[wplug] Lilo problem in Mandrake 8.0

[Michael Procario]

My boot partition is at the beginning of the disk. Mandrake did not make any 
primary partitions. /boot is 100 MB right at the beginning of hdb. 


On Sunday 27 May 2001 23:28, you wrote:
> 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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