problems with lilo

Andreas Müller a_m_28 at gmx.net
Mon Jul 12 12:52:19 UTC 2004


Hallo all,

I have a problem with booting my fresh installed rh system.

Before I had lilo-21.4.4-25.1.i386.rpm installed, but I recieved an
error like something about cylinder 1024 (don't remember anymore). I
suppose that this error is due to the size of my hd. Now I've installed
the latest rpm I've found: lilo-22.5-1.rh90.test.i386.rpm, but it still
does not work. The system boots to L and then I see lots of 01.

My lilo.conf looks like this:

prompt
timeout=5
default=linux
boot=/dev/hda6
map=/boot/map
#install=/boot/boot.b
#message=/boot/message
lba32
vga=788

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-4.EL
        label=linux
        root=/dev/hda7
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-4.EL.img
        read-only
        append="hdc=ide-scsi"

My /boot contains these files:

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          512 12. Jul 13:56 boot.0306
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           11 12. Jul 13:52 boot.b ->
boot-menu.b
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         9728 17. Nov 2003  boot-bmp.b
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         9216 17. Nov 2003  boot-menu.b
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7680 17. Nov 2003  boot-text.b
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          900 17. Nov 2003  chain.b
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        48022  4. Okt 2003 
config-2.4.21-4.EL
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 12. Jul 13:21 grub
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       165302 11. Jul 22:49
initrd-2.4.21-4.EL.img
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          543 11. Jul 22:49 kernel.h
drwx------    2 root     root        12288 12. Jul 00:46 lost+found
-rw-------    1 root     root        27648 12. Jul 14:17 map
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          512 17. Nov 2003  mbr.b
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          832 17. Nov 2003  os2_d.b
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       570887  4. Okt 2003 
System.map-2.4.21-4.EL
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      2900380  4. Okt 2003 
vmlinux-2.4.21-4.EL
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1236945  4. Okt 2003 
vmlinuz-2.4.21-4.EL

Is there any solution to this problem? What am I missing?
I'm booting my system from a 160GB disk and the BIOS will only see
8455MB, but I'm capable to boot another linux system which lies behind
the rh system on my hd with lilo, but it's lilo lilo-22.5.8-5. Is there
any newer version for fedora available? Or are the errors in my config?

Hope that someone can help me here.

Thanx in advance,

Andreas






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