Re: tlug: Lilo hosed

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Howard Abbey wrote:

> > Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hdd1            1        1       33    66496+  82  Linux swap
> > /dev/hdd2           34       34      621  1185408   83  Linux native
> 
> Hmm...  hdd2 eh... My guess is that's your problem (i.e. I can't think
> of
> anything else).  Two primary (non-logical) partitions might not be liked
> by
> your Bios / Lilo / something.  If you don't mind re-installing, try
> changing 
> it to hda5 (an extended partition).  

I've used this before with no problems for a long time, so I don't think
that's it.  Anyway, the disk that's having the problems is /dev/hda.
/dev/hdd is fine.  /dev/hda never had this problem until I installed a
TurboLinux J beta on /dev/hdd (which has nothing but the beta on it), and
then LILO was sick and the head count was getting reported as 0.

> Here's what I do to play it safe:
> Always partition hard disks with MS-Dos (pre-Win95) fdisk.  Then use

This is a 100% pure Linux machine, and I haven't had a copy of MS-DOS in
years, so that's not really an option.  One of the reasons I run Linux and
on a separate machine is to also make the vagueries of other fdisks a
non-issue.

Now if I could only figure out what's wrong and fix it :-)

Jonathan

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