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

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Maybe Steven would be willing to post lilo, chain.b and
> > boot.b for BL3.40.
>
> All of those files are already in BL3 (floppy version).
> Users of the DOS version can get them from Slackware 4.0.

I did not find chain.b there (in BL3.32).

> > boot=/dev/fd0    (or boot=/dev/hda to install to hard disk)
> > prompt           (gives you a LILO boot: prompt)
>
> I use "delay=50" instead of "prompt".
> I recommend you add "compact".

What does delay=50 do, boot to DOS after 5 sec and give a prompt?

> > LILO boot:
> > Nothing happens unless I type something.
>
> That's because you used "prompt"


Thanks.  That should give me one perfect lilo boot disk.  COuld anything 
terrible happen if I changed fd0 to hda and installed to the MBR?


I tried to make a similar lilo boot disk on the Compaq computer.  First I 
got a bad 1.44K floppy disk.  I DOS formatted a bunch and found 7 with bad 
track 0 or bad sectors then one good one, and one good 720, both of which 
I formatted with mke2fs -c to check for bad blocks.  (I also checked the 7 
bad disk on a another ocmputer and they were just as bad so it is not the 
floppy drive).

I changed the partition names in lilo.conf to match this computer 
(/dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4 instead of /dev/hdb3 and /dev/hdb4) after copying 
lilo, chain.b, boot.b and lilo.conf to ext2 hd BL3.  I had stored them all 
on the boot floppy for the other computer in the same directories as they 
go in on the hard disk.  I did not copy them to the new lilo boot disk - 
should I?

mke2fs -c /dev/fd0
mount /dev/fd0 /fd

lilo -v   - appeared to work perfectly, no complaints about floppy disks 
not mounting or finding a backup copy of MR already. (After making a bad 
boot disk I deleted the MBR backup in /boot.)

When I tried to boot with the bad disk (before realizing it had gone bad) 
or the two known good ones it got as far as LI

and then stopped.

The 2 BL3.32 floppy disks boot with lilo so it is my disk, not the 
computer, that is having problems.  What might I have done wrong?

I did not put in the line about map because it was not needed on the first 
computer, map got copied to /boot by lilo on both computers.


I tried again with delay=50 instead of default=dos and prompt.  Still only 
LI .

I don't want to install to MBR on hd until the floppy boot disk is 
working.

Any ideas?