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

[Craig Terhune <craigter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Did you read pg. 123 lilo errors in your suse man?

On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you 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!
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