LILO probs

From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 02:48:17 EST

Please see below.
Rene (below) have tried to help me out here, but I still can't boot. / is on
hda5 and /boot is on hda1.

Any suggestions?

thanks

roy

On Sunday 06 October 2002 23:37, Rene Herman wrote:
> On Sunday 06 October 2002 21:59, you wrot
>
> > Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 38792 cylinders
> >
> > Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID
> > 1 80 1 1 0 15 63 609 63 614817 83
> > 2 00 0 1 610 15 63 1023 614880 10486224 83
> > 3 00 15 63 1023 15 63 1023 11101104 4194288 83
> > 4 00 15 63 1023 15 63 1023 15295392 23806944 0f
> > 5 00 15 63 1023 15 63 1023 63 2097585 83
> > 6 00 15 63 1023 15 63 1023 63 1048257 83
> > 7 00 15 63 1023 15 63 1023 63 1048257 82
> > 8 00 15 63 1023 15 63 1023 63 19612593 83
>
> Looks perfectly normal. That "1023" is simply because the cylinder field is
> held in a 10-bit field, giving the famous 1024 cylinder-limit. With LBA
> addressing all partitions are created like this.
>
> I can see absolutely no reason why things wouldn't work. If you use lba32,
> you should be able to have /boot anywhere on the disk. /dev/hda1 falls
> completely within the 1024 limit, so if you put /boot there, you should
> even be able to boot *without* lba32. Example minimal /etc/lilo.conf:
>
> ===
> boot=/dev/hda
> lba32
> prompt
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> root=/dev/root
> label=linux
> ===
>
> You do have boot=/dev/hda don't you? Not /dev/hda1 or something silly like
> that?
>
> Rene. 

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