lilo failed--HELP

[Michael J. Schweppe]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 00:46:17 -0700, you wrote:

>Justin wrote:
>> 
>> Reboot w/ a Linux boot disk and go into rescue mode, mount your drives and
>> run /sbin/lilo -v -v
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Michael
>> J. Schweppe
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 5:23 PM
>> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>> Subject: Re: lilo failed--HELP
>> 
>> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:10:46 -0700 (PDT), Matt Alexander <m@netpro.to>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >To restore the DOS MBR, type this at the command prompt:
>> >
>> >fdisk /mbr
>> >
>> I get the return of another A:\> with nothing.
>> 
>----------
>wow - I believe that when your /boot oartutuib is on the slave drive,
>you have to include something like bios=0x82 in lilo.conf -  you should
>have seen a message flash by about this at the tail end of the install.

Messages go by pretty fast, couldn't tell you...

To recap, on the initial install, after the second cd was placed I
stepped out of the room for an extended period of time.  This was a
mistake because I missed the boot creation section, apparently Linux
timed out and finished the install.  Hence no boot disk on round one.

After I got the fdisk /mbr sqaured away [I didn't know that after you
issue the fdisk /mbr commmand that noting happens on the command line
but that you reboot anyhow.  OK, so I'm back in Win and reinstall Red
Hat.  Careful to pay close attention and make boot disk.  Reboot.
Blah.  Same issue :-(.  After reboot I get the usual power up stuff,
and then a flashing "L" with a non-responsive system.

Use boot disk to get Linux up.

Here is a copy of my /etc/lilo.conf

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear  
default=dos

image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.2-2
	label=linux
	read-only
	root=/dev/hdb8

other=/dev/hda1
	optional
	label=dos
	
Thanks,

Mike