LILO

[Martin P Holland <nospam [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk>]

Hi everyone,

Up until recently I have been booting up linux from a floppy, the reason being
that my linux resides on a HD that is bigger than my bios can cope with so I
have to use some EZbios software (presumably living on the MBR) to get around
this. So as I wasn't sure how LILO and EZbios would interact I decide to play
it safe when I installed.

Anyhow in a a spirit of daring I recently installed LILO on the MBR. This works
fine (i.e. I can boot up linux and windows and both seem to function
properly) except for one thing. When I boot from LILO the red HD activity light
is constantly lit up, even after I shutdown. This doesn't happen if I boot from
a floppy or use loadlin.

I find this a bit worrying so I have reverted to booting from a floppy for the
moment but I wondered if anyone can suggest anything to get round this
or whether it is a fact of life to do with the ezbios sofware.

In case I missed some obvious thing I include my /etc/lilo.conf
All I did to install it was to create this file and then run lilo.

[root@noether martin]# cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
message=/boot/bootmsg
prompt
timeout=100

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=l
root=/dev/hdb5
read-only

other=/dev/hda1
label=w

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=x
root=/dev/hdb5
read-only
append=5

atb

Martin
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http://www.shef.ac.uk/~pm1mph

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