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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Thanks for looking into this.  Actually I wanted to be able to boot DOS, 
BL2 or BL2 without loadlin, on the same computer, with DOS as default.

Is sleeping forever something to do with read-write versus read-only?
When Steven told me how to do DOS/BL3 with lilo I had to specify 
read-write.  BL3 uses rw.  Standard Slackware uses ro, BL2 to HD ro, BL2 
RAMdisk rw (right, Steven?).  Did you specify read-write somewhere when 
setting up lilo?

I thought BL3 came with lilo already.

How would one remove lilo from the boot sector of a second hard drive? 
Can you do fdisk /mbr with linux fdisk?

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, James Miller wrote:

> I've been fiddling a bit with lilo in an attempt to boot multiple
> instances of BL3 as Sindi has wanted to do.  First, let me just confirm
> which version of lilo relates to BL3.  Is it the one from BL1?  I didn't
> see any lilo download at the BL3 add-ons site.
>
> In principle, lilo can boot other instances of Linux on the same
> system--provided that each instance has lilo installed in the first
> sectors (called "superblock" I think) of its root filesystem partition.
> A more convoluted way, it seems, is to keep all kernels in the /boot
> directory on the main partition and specify both the kernel image and root
> filesystem location in lilo.conf.
>
> However, it seems that the lilo for BL1 is some sort of trimmed down
> version (isn't it, Steven?), so it might not work for this.  When I
> installed it and edited lilo.conf to add my DOS partition, when I went to
> run lilo, I was told chain.b was missing.  So it couldn't add the DOS
> partition.  Maybe there would be a similar limitations to adding other
> instances of BL3/Linux to it?
>
> Undaunted, I decided to forge ahead using SBM--Smart Boot Manager.  I
> looked over some lilo documentation and discovered that the way to install
> lilo to the superblock is, apparently, by using the -b option (bootdev)
> and specifying the device and partition number.  In my case I used lilo -v
> -b /dev/hda2 .  It seemed to work in the sense of writing lilo to the
> first sectors of my BL3 partition.

> However, trying to boot that partition using SBM gets only partway done,
> then stalls.  It gets as far as mounting the filesystem readonly, frees
> unused memory, then starts init.  But right after that (i.e., after the
> Busybox line) I get
>
> ------------------------------------------
> No more tasks for init -- sleeping forever
> ------------------------------------------
>
> and it hangs there.
>
> Seems like I've made progress toward booting multiple instances of BL3,
> but am not quite there yet.  Any ideas why I get this "sleeping forever"
> message and what to do about it?
>
> Thanks, James
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