RE: Dual boot boot disk problems

[mwvonlehe netscape net]

Hmmmm... This has never happened to me, but I have had to overcome many other boot problems. If you get any linux boot floppy try this at the linux: prompt (This is called passing parameters to the kernel.)

Linux: root=/dev/hda1

if that doesn't work then try on the next boot attempt at the linux prompt

root=/dev/hda2

and so on until you hit the correct partition for root.

Once you choose the proper hdax where x=1,2,3,4,5 then you should boot up.

It will probably be hda3 or hda4...

After you boot up at a terminal window type lilo -v -v and that should fix the LILO boot loader. Then do a mkbootdisk command to match your kernel. I think it is 

mkbootdisk /dev/fd0 2.4.3-7

This is assuming that your kernel is the old 2.4.2-7? Sorry but I am not on a linux box so I can't look up the exact kernel or mkbootdisk command. Can somebody help us out? I will be looking in later and if I see a reply to this e-mail I will make the appropriate corrections once I am able to get on my linux box...

Mike


"Aidan Whitehall" <aidan thenetprofits co uk> wrote:

>C:\ = 6Gb with Windows 2000 Professional (NTFS)
>D:\ = 4Gb, 1Gb = NTFS, 3Gb = RedHat 7.1 (installed today)
>
>During the installation, I selected the option that doesn't put Lilo on the
>MBR. A boot disk was created but when rebooted, the PC reported:
>
>: Loading vmlinuz......
>: Boot failed. Please change disks and press a key to continue.
>
>Is that a bad disk? I've been trying (and failing miserably) to create a
>boot disk (I guess that's the next step) using another PC that's running
>RedHat 7.1 going on instructions found on the web (below), and everything's
>OK until the lilo command.
>
>fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 # Lay tracks on new diskette
>mkfs -t minix /dev/fd0 1440 # Create minix file system on floppy
>mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy # Mount floppy
>cp -p /boot/chain.b /mnt/floppy # Copy chain loader
>cp -p /boot/boot* /mnt/floppy
>lilo -v -C /etc/lilo.floppy # Install lilo and the map onto floppy
>umount /mnt/floppy
>
>The last line but one returns the message "/etc/lilo.floppy: No such file or
>directory". Am I going down the right track? Is that line intended to copy
>lilo and the /etc/lilo.conf file from one PC onto the floppy?
>
>And if you make a boot disk using a PC that doesn't have a Windows
>partition, do you have to edit the lilo.conf file on the floppy so that when
>used in the PC running W2K Pro, it points to the correct partition on the D:
>drive?
>
>
>Thanks for any help you can offer!
>
>--
>Aidan
>
>
>
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