Re: [vox-tech] Trouble booting kernel =)

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@diMAPSrac.org>]

brad, a few observations:

* your lilo.conf is very complicated.  lots of fat to trim.  do you really
    need a boot message?  i'm not familiar with menu-scheme.  doesn't appear
    in the howto either.  get rid of it.   you can add it later when things
    work.

* no need to specify a root device in each local section.  specify it once
   in the global section.   same with vga.

* you have a many-to-one mapping of images to label.  i'm surprised that lilo
   isn't complaining about this.

* i'm not aware of any kernel parameters named "failsafe".  how did it get
     into your lilo.conf?  i would get rid of it.


exactly what distribution are you running?  this is a very strange lilo.conf!


here is a lilo.conf for an imaginary dualboot system, and represents what i
try to shoot for when i write a lilo.conf.  nice, clean and no caffeine.
never had it, never will:

# Global
#
install=/boot/boot.b
delay=20
boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hdb1
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
compact
read-only
prompt

# Local
#
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3
   label=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2
   label=oldlinux
other=/dev/hda1
   table=/dev/hda
   label=win95


lastly, run rdev on all your kernel images and make sure the output looks
something like

/    /dev/hdb8

stupid question - your root partition is on the 8th partition of the primary
slave drive, right?

can you post your /etc/fstab?

lastly, what are the messages just before you get a "root fs not found"
error?

pete


On Wed 11 Apr 01,  1:17 PM, Brad Benedict said: 
> feh, I forgot I took it out of lilo.conf for some reason.  Here is the
> one I'm having trouble booting with.  The image is /vmlinuz-2.4.3...
> 
> [root@brad brad]# cat /etc/lilo.conf
> boot = /dev/hda
> map = /boot/map
> timeout = 50
> prompt
>   message = /boot/message
>   default = windows
>   vga = normal
>   read-only
> install=/boot/boot.b
> keytable=/boot/us.klt
> lba32
> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3
> label = linux
> vga = 788
> append = " mem=88M hdc=ide-scsi"
> root = /dev/hdb8
> image = /boot/safe
>   label = old_linux
>   vga = 788
>   append = " mem=88M hdc=ide-scsi"
>   root = /dev/hdb8
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
>   label = linux-nonfb
>   append = " mem=88M hdc=ide-scsi"
>   root = /dev/hdb8
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
>   label = failsafe
>   append = " mem=88M hdc=ide-scsi failsafe"
>   root = /dev/hdb8
> other = /dev/hda1
>   label = windows
>   table=/dev/hda
> other = /dev/fd0
>   label = floppy
>   unsafe
> 
>  
> Dett skj?rtet er for stort!  Der kl?r alle steder!  Jeg liker ikke sm?
> barn!

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