[aclug-L] Re: LI probs at boot of SuSe 6.3

[Larry Bottorff <mrprenzl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Wouldn't this require a reinstall/repartition? I probably want to avoid this.
. . .

Jeff Rose wrote:

> Larry Bottorff wrote:
> >
> > Just got SuSe 6.3 and did the install. Previously had Mandrax 6.0 dual
> > booting Linux (on second drive hdb1) and NT (on hda1). My original
> > lilo.conf follows:
> >
> > boot=/dev/hda
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > prompt
> > timeout=50
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk
> > label=linux
> > root=/dev/hdb1
> > read-only
> > other=/dev/hda1
> > label=nt
> > table=/dev/hda
> >
> > Now, the new SuSe lilo.conf:
> > boot=/dev/hdb1
> > vga=normal
> > read-only
> > prompt
> > timeout=100
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > root=/dev/hdb1
> > label=Linux
> > other=/dev/hda1
> > label=NT
> > table=/dev/hda
> >
> > Neither work. The lilo starts but gets only to "LI". I tried lilo -C
> > /etc/lilo.conf and get an error message "Sorry, don't know how to handle
> > device 0x0102."
> >
> > Any ideas? I'll give you guys 5 minutes to solve this, otherwise, I'm
> > fdisking NT!
>
> Here's is what worked for me:
>
> Make three partitions (at the least/varies with taste and religion ;):
>
> 5-10Meg '/boot' -on hda1
> 128Meg swap -on hda2
> remainder '/' -on hda3
>
> Now you can run LILO on either /boot, or the MBR with no problem.
>
> I'm open to *real* solutions, but this worked for me on a 4.0Gig Hard
> Drive (never had his problem before, though SuSE admitted a bug in the
> initial 6.3 boxed sets!).
>
> Jeff
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