[wplug] Lilo problem in Mandrake 8.0

[Ron&Barb]

The info. you are looking for is in  LINUX HOW-TOS, the english howtos:Multi
Disk System Tuning  by Stein Gjoen. It is listed under documentation. I hope
this will help you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Procario" <procario at ix.netcom.com>
To: <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 11:19 PM
Subject: [wplug] Lilo problem in Mandrake 8.0


> 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
> 
> _Good Luck, Ron Herbster______________________________________________
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