see below for my original post I've uploaded some files to http://karlsbakk.net/bugs/ that may help to explain the problem. Still - I can't boot from nothing but floppy. thanks roy On Sunday 30 June 2002 14:19, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > hi > > I hope this is not OT - didn't find any LILO mailing list. after trying > virtually everything - can anyone help me with a tip? > > Running 2.4.19-pre10-ac2, RedHat 7.3 (LILO version 21.4-4), I have root on > /dev/md0 on RAID-1 on /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1. I've tried the howto at > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO-3.html#ss3.1, but it > still doesn't help me. lilo just tells me "L 99 99 99 99 ..." some half a > page, and then stops.I'm trying. All the time it prints this, it seems to > be searching the floppy for some reason. > > The lilo.conf suggested by the above HOWTO, is this > > # lilo.conf.hda - primary ide master > disk=/dev/md0 > bios=0x80 > sectors=63 > heads=16 > cylinders=39770 > partition=/dev/md1 > start=63 > boot=/dev/hda > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > > image=/boot/bzImage > root=/dev/md0 > read-only > label=LinuxRaid > > sector/head/cylinder is corrected to the actual data reported from 'fdisk > -ul'. > > When trying to set. boot=/dev/hdm (which is the first drive on the on-board > chipset), lilo installs, and I get LI instead of L 99 99 ... Same result > with LBA32. > > I also have another box with Linux, running SuSE 7.2 (LILO version 21.7-5) > with RAID-1 on two drives. Here everything works fine > > thanks for all help > > roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows. ------------------------------------------------------- -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
