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| 189026 | 2003-11-04 01:55:00 | Hi, I am running slackware 8.0 on my new computer, AMD 2800+ GA7400Pro Motherboard, with at Seagate 120MB SATA HD, I am using the 2.4.22 kernel, however LILO does not work, a lilo bootdisk does work. When trying to use LILO off the HDD nothing comes up not even L. Would this perhaps be because LILO doesn't know enough about SATA disks until the kernel comes up? Or perhaps because the device is hde2 and maybe not considered the second HDD? Any Help, suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. |
SaAB (1292) | ||
| 189027 | 2003-11-04 02:02:00 | If you're not getting anything from LILO, you probably haven't got it properly installed. If that is the active partition, the BIOS code should load the LILO loader. If it was being put into memory it would show on the screen. Is it a multi-boot installation? If so, you did install the MS OS first, then the Linux? (MS doesn't like Linux, and puts their own boot code over any Lunux loader. :D) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 189028 | 2003-11-04 02:12:00 | Currently I have LILO set up for the root pattition (/dev/hde2) when I set the second partition active nothing happens, I have also tried it in the MBR with the same effect, I reverted and set the first partition active so that I could boot windows. Thanks for the suggestion. |
SaAB (1292) | ||
| 189029 | 2003-11-04 02:19:00 | It's all magic, but new hardware always brings up new problems. I'd use a floppy, I think. :D I suppose you are using XP so haven't got a real DOS session available. I have used LOADLIN.EXE at times with odd hardware. It is a DOS programme which loads the kernel (which has to be in the DOS partition). It works well. The DOS is just dropped, which might not be a good idea if it's part of XP. ;-) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 189030 | 2003-11-04 03:03:00 | As it happens, currently running 98. Have tried loadlin, but every image I try it says something about not recognising the compression format. (I got the impression that it was not dumped but kept in memory and that when you reboot it drops out to dos again instead) Thanks. |
SaAB (1292) | ||
| 189031 | 2003-11-04 03:40:00 | > (I got the impression that it was not dumped but kept > in memory and that when you reboot it drops out to > dos again instead) DOS doesn't have any memory protection so it can overwrite the DOS OS with the linux kernel. No trace of DOS is left in memory so it can't return to DOS. If it worked under winXP I would want my money back because the memory protection should have prevented it from being possible. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 189032 | 2003-11-04 04:17:00 | Loadlin may have been left behind. :D The new kernels are compressed with bz2, not gzip. I had a quick look on Google, but most of the complaints about SATA have been problems with installing. They seem to suggest that once the OS is loaded, that LILO doesn't have problems with the SATA drives. I've never minded booting from a floppy ... if it's only LILO to be loaded from that, it would be pretty fast. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 189033 | 2003-11-04 09:34:00 | Oh well, in the end I gave up on LILO, GRUB works when installed in the MBR, so LILO is DEAD long live GRUB. Thanks for your replies. |
SaAB (1292) | ||
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