On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:58:19PM +0100, Flameeyes wrote:
>George Georgalis wrote:
>
>>LILO should work. are you sure it's installed correctly? what version
>>are you using?
>
>I'm using LILO 22.3.3, if I install it on the first hdd it works
>perfectly, but when I change the boot line for use the /dev/hdb, the
>system can't boot.
if you change the boot line you need to change the bios to
look there too, you could experiment by setting boot=/dev/fd0
and use a floppy for the boot loader, only takes a second.
but anyway, I think it's root that you want to adjust
root=/dev/hdb1 (or whatever partition) and keep your boot=/dev/hda
>I have an Award Bios that boot from [in sequence] floppy drive, HDD-1
>[primary slave], HDD-0 [primary master].
>
just be sure the bios and lilo.conf are use the same media/mbr
to boot from.
>>I like GRUB better, but I'm currently using lilo, at least I did back
>>when I compiled my xfs kernel 20 days ago :)
>
>Never tried grub, where I can find some info about that?
don't know a url, it is part of rh and deb.
// George
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