Re: [Sheflug] Lilo 1024 problems

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

Does the system boot without the second hard drive connected? What does
lilo say when you run it? What is the exact message it says when it
(doesn't) boot?

Cheers,

Alex.

On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Sammy Redshaw wrote:

> Yes yes I know this is probably the last thing you want to hear about
> but, i've got very silly LiLo problem and I need help with it.
> 
> First of all this is my PC Specs:
> 
> 22GIG IBM  Deskstar    7200rpm ATA - 66  Primary S.M.A.R.T enabled
> 6.4 GIG Quantum Fireball CX 5400rpm ATA - 66 Slave S.M.A.R.T enabled
> 128 meg of ram
> Althon 550
> Gigabyte  71GX mobo
> 
> At the  moment i am running the IBM hard disk running Linux Mandrake 7
> when I attach the second Hard disk  (it is just Fat 32 formated with
> nothing on it) I get invalid space replace disk and press any key to
> begin
> when the machine finished starting up or just a blank screen.
> The boot area of the Primary Disk is cylinder 0-2 I have upgraded the
> Lilo from 21 to 21.2.4 and have added lba32 to the top of the lilo.conf
> file and type in lilo in the konsole to load the lilo.conf it but to no
> avail.
> I am wonderin if you know the answer to this silly problem as i am stuck
> using a boot disk and would really like to set it up to start
> automaticly.
> 
> Thanks for any Answer to this problem as i don't understand it
> 
> Sammy
> 
> 
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