From: wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell) Subject: Re: Need help booting Linux off HD Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:48:17 GMT
In article <1993Jan2.202342.10290@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> creacy@yuppie.enet.dec.com (Chet Creacy) writes:
>
>In article <72759@cup.portal.com>, DO@cup.portal.com (JEFF SCOTT MARCUS) writes...
>>I am having troubles installing Lilo .7 on my system. I am trying to
>>install it on a 100MB IDE with an 8MB DOS active partition and a 64MB
>>Linux partition. I finaly got Lilo installed (and kept from stomping my
>>DOS primary) and DOS boots up fine, Linux however does not. Here is my
>>Lilo config. file -
>>
>>install=/etc/lilo/boot.b
>>boot=/dev/hda
>>delay=10
>>other=/dev/hda1
>>table=/dev/hda
>>image=/Image
>>
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>>MINIX-fs: Unable to read superblock
>>EXT-fs: Unable to read superblock (never used mkefs)
>>MSDOS bread failed
>>isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 0x343 iso_blknum16
>>Kernel panic: Unable to mount root
>>
>>And then it dies :( I am brand new to Linux/Unix and cant find mention in
>>the docs I have (and dont know how to use TeX to read the large Lilo
>>docs, sniff) so would some kind soul please help me out ... hmmmmm??
>>Oh btw, I am using the latest SLS root/boot release.
I not exactly sure what your problem is but, are you sure that
you told lilo what partition root is on (i.e. linux=/Image,/dev/hda1
or something similiar to that).
The first time I tried using lilo, I got the same error because it
was looking for linus's root partition in the wrong spot.
- Bill O'Connell wto@ihlpx.att.com