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

[Larry Bottorff <mrprenzl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, but it really dances around the issue of not being doable on a second
drive. They teach you tricks to have a boot on the first drive. Hey, you guys
screwed up! Now NT gets it! Igor, bring the Microsoft magnet!

Craig Terhune wrote:

> 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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