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- From: DO@cup.portal.com (JEFF SCOTT MARCUS)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Need help booting Linux off HD
- Message-ID: <72759@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 17:00:57 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
- Lines: 50
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- I am having troubles installing Lilo .7 on my system. I am trying to
- install it on a 100MB IDE with an 8MB DOS active partition and a 64MB
- Linux partition. I finaly got Lilo installed (and kept from stomping my
- DOS primary) and DOS boots up fine, Linux however does not. Here is my
- Lilo config. file -
-
- install=/etc/lilo/boot.b
- boot=/dev/hda
- delay=10
- other=/dev/hda1
- table=/dev/hda
- image=/Image
-
- When I run Lilo I get this message -
-
- Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
- Merging with /etc/lilo/boot.b
- Device 0x0302: BIOS drive 0x80, 7 heads, 868 cylinders,
- 34 sectors. Partition offset: 12376 sectors.
- Secondary loader: 3 sectors.
- Device 0x0302: BIOS drive 0x80, 7 heads, 868 cylinders,
- 34 sectors. Partition offset: 34 sectors.
- Mapped 2 (1+1) sectors.
- Added hda1
- <dev=0x80,hd=4,cyl=122,sct=67>
- Boot image: /Image
- Device 0x0302: BIOS drive 0x80, 7 heads, 868 cylinders,
- 34 sectors. Partition offset: 12376 sectors.
- Mapped 846 sectors.
- Added Image
- <dev=0x80,hd=4,cyl=122,sct=68>
- Map file size: 7168 bytes.
-
- Now when I boot Linux everything looks normal until it reaches the
- "partition tables ok" message and then I get -
-
- MINIX-fs: Unable to read superblock
- EXT-fs: Unable to read superblock (never used mkefs)
- MSDOS bread failed
- isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 0x343 iso_blknum16
- Kernel panic: Unable to mount root
-
- And then it dies :( I am brand new to Linux/Unix and cant find mention in
- the docs I have (and dont know how to use TeX to read the large Lilo
- docs, sniff) so would some kind soul please help me out ... hmmmmm??
- Oh btw, I am using the latest SLS root/boot release.
-
-
- Jeff Marcus
- DO@cup.portal.com
-