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Old 02-20-2001, 11:44 PM   #1
polarcat
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Here is the situation.

I have a system with the Promise Ultra100 controller and two harddrives,
one on each channel of the controller (/dev/hde and /dev/hdg). I have
Windows2000 on /dev/hde. Linux is installed on /dev/hdg with root on
/dev/hdg7 and boot on /dev/hdg5. LILO is installed on /dev/hdg5 which
is /boot.

NT Loader loads when the system is started and gives me the choice to
run either Windows2k or Linux. The problem is when I choose linux it
gives me "LI" and nothing else. I was told by somebody it had to do
with LILO not wanting to look at the second physical HD for the second
stage bootloader. This doesn't quite make sense to me since the first
stage bootloader is located on the second physical hd but eitherway I
was wondering if anyone had a fix?

Thanks

 
Old 02-21-2001, 09:16 AM   #2
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Did you create a emergency boot disk when installing Linux?
 
Old 02-21-2001, 11:28 AM   #3
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I can still boot into linux just fine on that machine using a bootable CD or a kernel boot disk.
 
  


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