[wplug] Lilo problem in Mandrake 8.0

David G Matthews dgm4+ at pitt.edu
Tue May 29 08:31:59 EDT 2001


It's been my experience that Mandrake's partitioning utility has some
issues.  I actually had to use Win 2k's disk tool to set up my partitions,
and then format them with Manndrake.  Also, you might try using GRUB (the
other boot manager which Mandrake 8.0 includes) instead of Lilo.
-dgm
 

On Sun, 27 May 2001, Michael Procario wrote:

> 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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