From: tp@jet.uk (Tarang K Patel) Subject: [Q] Lilo installation, chaining MSDOS 5.0 doesnt work for me ? Date: 28 Oct 1992 12:24:59 GMT
First, I installed lilo from the shell
!#/bin/sh
/etc/lilo/lilo -b /dev/hda -c -i /etc/lilo/boot.b linux=/etc/Image \
msdos=/etc/lilo/chain.b+/dev/hda1@/dev/hda
This reports
Added linux
Added msdos
However, when I try to boot up to MSDOS I get
Non system disk....
So, I went back to linux (currently I am on 0.98 p2), and did the following
cd /etc/lilo
./lilo -m map -v
this reports
linux <dev=0x80, hd=7, cyl=19, sct=...><root=0x0302,swap=0x0000>
msdos <dev=0x80, hd=7, cyl=19, sct=...+1>< " ">
But my hard disk parameters should read
No of heads = 8
No of cylinders = 771 (for /dev/hda, else 388 /dev/hda1)
So I decided to define these in /etc/lilo/disktab, but the question is
[Q] What/who decides the DEVICE NUMBER ?
[Q] What/who decide the BIOS CODE ?
[Q] The exact format of parameters in /etc/lilo/disktab ?
On another subect now ...
[Q] Detection of serial mouse and the interrupt setting its on, what source?
As my mouse is set on interrupt 4 ( I cant/dont want to change this
setting as I have other hardware using various interrupts )
Tarang
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