Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Jan 2000 20:15:54 +0100 | From | reiner <> | Subject | Booting from a 640MB MO-Disk with LILO? |
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Hi all,
I need some help to manage booting from an 640MB MO-Disk (2048 bytes per
sector)
Here are the steps i have done : From my potato box installed on an IBM scsi-disk (sda)
fdisk -b 2048 /dev/sdb (the option -b 2048 is not in the man-page, i found it on a japanese Webserver)
Then i have make 3 linux partitions and 1 swap partition with the corresponding id´s on it: sdb1 100MB for / sdb2 32MB for swap sdb3 400MB for /usr and on sdb4 the rest for /home (about 50MB)
I have the bootable Flag set to partition sdb1.
Then mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/sdb1 mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/sdb3 mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/sdb4
Later i have decided to do a fresh potato install on it (only the required minimum) and grab the latest boot disk (2.2.4-2000-01-03) I installed this in a dos directorie (hda) and started the installation per loadlin (because i don´t trust floppy´s) Everything works fine during the installation and the files are on the MO. I´have also made a boot disk for this new installation on the MO (tried several floppys and the 4. floppy got it) Now i have installed LILO in the MBR of the MO and get the following messages:
ll_rw_block:device 08:00:only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024) ll_rw_block:device 08:00:only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024) ll_rw_block:device 08:00:only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024) Added Linux*
what does this mean? In trouble with 2048 bytes per sector?
Here is my lilo.conf
disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80 disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 boot=dev/sda root=/dev/sda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only
The MO is now sda because i have changed the scan-order in the scsi-bios
Also i have changed the Motherboard-Bios to boot from scsi first (not ide)
Now the smoke test:
I get the LILO-error message
L010101010101010.........
I inserted the boot-floppy and reboot Now the System is up and running on the MO but i can`t boot directly from MO. What´s wrong? I´ve looked in the LILO-User´s guide from Werner Almesberger but nothing found that helps.
Here are my System configuration:
ASUS Motherboard P55T2P4 with K6-2 366MHz Symbios SCSI-Controller Sym 8750 with 53C875-Chip and NV-RAM IBM SCSI-Disk (My up-to-date Potato-Box;Kernel 2.2.13) IBM IDE-Disk (DOS/Win System) Fujitsu MO-Drive (With the System from the fresh Potato Install;Kernel 2.2.13)
It would be cool if i can boot from MO, because this wood be a good and reliable (No floppy needed) rescue or experimantal System
Thanks in advance for any help
R.Stallknecht
PS: I´ve posted this to the Debian User Mailing List and got one reply so far that this is bios related. Is this true?
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