Re: [Sheflug] Lilo 1024 problems

[Sammy Redshaw <nospam [at] cableinet.co.uk>]

Fixed it  it was the bios boot sequnce causing it to boot the second Hd
(slave )First :P
I remeber that for next time now got winblow on second HD to run scanner

cheers

Sammy

Alex Hudson wrote:

> 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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