Hi,

I reinstalling Slack on a pc I previously booted using a floppy. Now I
want to boot straight from the harddisk, but have a very hard time
getting lilo to show anything else than L 99. Booting with the floppy
still works ok, but after 5 complete reinstallation attempts today
including trying to put lilo in different places and editing lilo.conf
it still doesn't go.

/etc/lilo.conf:

boot = /dev/hdc (/dev/hda is present, but not powered)
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hdc2
label = Linux
read-only

Thanks for any solution or idea

Huub

Dnia Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:58:23 +0100, Huub wyry³(a):

try to use: liloconfig

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Huub wrote:

> boot = /dev/hdc (/dev/hda is present, but not powered)
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
> root = /dev/hdc2

Hi.
Are your shure about hdc? May be your bios begin to boot from hdb ?
Did you have some hard drives?

Huub wrote :

> boot = /dev/hdc (/dev/hda is present, but not powered)

Why this strange setup? Why don't you just remove hda and let your
present hdc be hda? Or why don't you power hda and put the bootloader in
the mbr at hda?
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Huub wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I reinstalling Slack on a pc I previously booted using a floppy. Now I
> want to boot straight from the harddisk, but have a very hard time
> getting lilo to show anything else than L 99. Booting with the floppy
> still works ok, but after 5 complete reinstallation attempts today
> including trying to put lilo in different places and editing lilo.conf
> it still doesn't go.
>
> /etc/lilo.conf:
>
> boot = /dev/hdc (/dev/hda is present, but not powered)
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
> root = /dev/hdc2
> label = Linux
> read-only
>
> Thanks for any solution or idea
>
> Huub

Just an idea. Your BIOS is looking for something to pass control to.
Usually it is THE primary master drive and its mbr. Some latter BIOS's
can be instructed to try other drives.
Your diskette has no such constrains and boots correctly.
So either connect hda and let lilo write itself in mbr, or connect hdc
as hda edit lilo.conf and rerun lilo.
When playing with those don't forget to update your booting diskette
scripts so at any change you can still get to your system.

Have fun

Stanislaw
Slack user from Ulladulla

addam wrote:
> Dnia Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:58:23 +0100, Huub wyry³(a):
>
> try to use: liloconfig
>
I did. Same result.

Antony Pavlenko wrote:
> Huub wrote:
>
>
>>boot = /dev/hdc (/dev/hda is present, but not powered)
>>image = /boot/vmlinuz
>> root = /dev/hdc2
>
>
> Hi.
> Are your shure about hdc? May be your bios begin to boot from hdb ?
> Did you have some hard drives?
>
Yes, I'm sure. The floppy boot points to /dev/hdc as well.

Thomas Overgaard wrote:
> Huub wrote :
>
>
>>boot = /dev/hdc (/dev/hda is present, but not powered)
>
>
> Why this strange setup? Why don't you just remove hda and let your
> present hdc be hda? Or why don't you power hda and put the bootloader in
> the mbr at hda?
Because that harddisk actually has FreeBSD installed and is not part of
the Slackware installation. So I shouldn't have called it /dev/hda.
Other pc's with Slack on the third IDE also have either grub or lilo
installed and have no problem booting from harddisk at all.

Huub wrote:

> Thomas Overgaard wrote:
>> Huub wrote :
>>
>>
>>>boot = /dev/hdc (/dev/hda is present, but not powered)
>>
>>
>> Why this strange setup? Why don't you just remove hda and let your
>> present hdc be hda? Or why don't you power hda and put the bootloader in
>> the mbr at hda?
> Because that harddisk actually has FreeBSD installed and is not part of
> the Slackware installation. So I shouldn't have called it /dev/hda.
> Other pc's with Slack on the third IDE also have either grub or lilo
> installed and have no problem booting from harddisk at all.

If FreeBSD resides on your first HDD, you should be able to add it to LILO
as 'other' (much like dual-booting Windows), then install lilo to tbe MBR
of /dev/hda. The FreeBSD drive superblock will boot when selected by LILO.
Worked for me when I had Linux, BSD and Windows installed.

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:58:23 +0100, Huub wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I reinstalling Slack on a pc I previously booted using a floppy. Now I
> want to boot straight from the harddisk, but have a very hard time getting
> lilo to show anything else than L 99. Booting with the floppy still works
> ok, but after 5 complete reinstallation attempts today including trying to
> put lilo in different places and editing lilo.conf it still doesn't go.
>
> /etc/lilo.conf:
>
> boot = /dev/hdc (/dev/hda is present, but not powered) image =
> /boot/vmlinuz
> root = /dev/hdc2
> label = Linux
> read-only
>
> Thanks for any solution or idea
>
> Huub

You did type lilo after your modifications, didn'g you?

JB