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- From: wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell)
- Subject: Re: Need help booting Linux off HD
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.224817.4072@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Sender: news@cbfsb.cb.att.com
- Organization: PC peripheral operational services group
- References: <72759@cup.portal.com> <1993Jan2.202342.10290@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:48:17 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <1993Jan2.202342.10290@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> creacy@yuppie.enet.dec.com (Chet Creacy) writes:
- >
- >In article <72759@cup.portal.com>, DO@cup.portal.com (JEFF SCOTT MARCUS) writes...
- >>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
- >>
-
- <deleted>
- >>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.
-
- I not exactly sure what your problem is but, are you sure that
- you told lilo what partition root is on (i.e. linux=/Image,/dev/hda1
- or something similiar to that).
-
- The first time I tried using lilo, I got the same error because it
- was looking for linus's root partition in the wrong spot.
-
- - Bill O'Connell wto@ihlpx.att.com
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