LILO probs

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>]

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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