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- Path: sparky!uunet!nevada.edu!news.unomaha.edu!cwis!dosburn
- From: dosburn@cwis.unomaha.edu (Don Osburn)
- Subject: LILO can't find root ?
- Message-ID: <dosburn.726862281@cwis>
- Summary: Lilo can't find kernal image
- Keywords: lilo kernal image
- Sender: news@news.unomaha.edu (UNO Network News Server)
- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:11:21 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- I posted recently regarding problems with Lilo. After running it to
- install the boot sector and rebooting, lilo would load and then give the
- message, "LILO loading.....", the boot prog would take over checking for
- lpt1, etc, and then the process would crash in PID 0. I have managed to
- get it to work, but I am still not sure what is going on.
-
- From responses received from my post, I have come to the conclusion that
- lilo did not find my root partition when it was run. For example, when
- creating the test boot floppy, when I used the command line:
-
- /etc/lilo/lilo -b /dev/fd0 -i /etc/lilo/boot.b /Image
-
- it would run okay, but the boot floppy would fail as previously
- described. I discovered that using:
-
- /etc/lilo/lilo -b /dev/fd0 -i /etc/lilo/boot.b /Image,/dev/hda1
-
- WOULD create a good boot floppy ONCE. I tried to create a second one
- because I am installing this on a community machine, and I want to give
- boot floppys to certain people. However, when I tried to use this same
- technique again, the second boot floppy would not work, but the first
- one still did. I tried a lot of things, which resulted in either the
- same situation, or sometimes it would cause a problem with booting from
- the original floppy. If it ever did screw up the original floppy, I
- could always rerun the second command line on the floppy, and it would
- work properly afterwards. (Yes, I did try several different floppys to
- ensure I did not have one bad one.) In all cases, I came to the
- conclusion that lilo would let me create one, and one only, boot floppy.
- WHY ?????
-
- The second wierd thing is, that using the following command line to
- install lilo to MY own hard drive (my machine at home) would not work:
-
- /etc/lilo/lilo -b /dev/hda1 -i /etc/lilo/boot.b /Image,/dev/hda1
-
- However, when I created an install/config file using these same
- parameters, it DID work. I can now boot from the hard drive as I
- expected.
-
- I am a little confused right now as to just what is going on. I am also
- extremely paranoid to mess with it anymore on my machine because it is
- finally working. Can anyone help me out on this?
-
- Oh, BTW THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP FROM EVERYONE. I REALLY appreciate it,
- and could not have gotten it at all without you.
-
-