dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
[....]
: Weird thing: after doing the lilo originally and trying to boot via
: the boot manager BM complained that the partition was not formatted -
: this was last night. Just now, after shutting down, booting linux from
: floppy a couple of times (had to reboot hard because of troiuble
: starting X), I idly tried it again and this time - LILO came up and
: linux shortly thereafter. Odd.... I did try lilo several times,
: including probably just entering it without an arguments. Oh well, if
: it ain't broke.....

I think I know what happened. My linux partition is on my second
drive, so I think that just entering lilo probably overwrote the MBR
on /dev/hdb and put the image into the root partition, i.e. /dev/hdb2.
Anyway, I tinkered with the lilo config file this afternoon - removed
the delay for a start, and re-lilo'ed (if there is such a word), now
everything is fine.

My config:

boot = /dev/hdb2
install = /etc/lilo/boot.b
compact
image = /Image
        label = linux
        root = /dev/hdb2
        vga=normal


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Real:  Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
Email: (dbarker@camosun.bc.ca)
Phone: +1 604 370 4452