lilo error

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 28.03.2005 schrieb kisha at lissaganda.com um 15:56:

> hi i have two fedora core 3 installed in a single IDE disk, after the 2nd install of fcore 3
> grub didnt boot my 1st fcore partition which i labeled 'pkg', thats why i download the rpm of lilo,
> then installed it, after adding some entries i run 'lilo' as root then i get this error message below.
> i hope anyone can help me fixing this problem, thanks.

I don't understand why you think you need lilo and why you didn't
correct grub.

> Added linux *
> Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda2 doesnt have a valid boot signature

Simply because from your lilo.conf lilo expects to find a boot loader
sector on /dev/hda2 which isn't there. As it is the first installed
Fedora system, you certainly placed the grub boot loader to /dev7hda
which is now gone after installing lilo.

>  from  fdisk -l 
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 10.0 GB, 10005037056 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19386 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
> 
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 1 163 82120+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 164 6258 3071880 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 6259 7298 524160 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda4 7299 19386 6092352 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 * 7299 7461 82120+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 7462 19386 6010168+ 83 Linux
> 
> my lilo.conf
> 
> prompt
> timeout=20
> default=linux
> boot=/dev/hda6
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> lba32
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667
> label=linux
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> read-only
> append="root=LABEL=/1"
> 
> 
> other = /dev/hda2
> label = PKG

If you stay with with lilo you will have to reconfigure lilo. Please see
the lilo docs on how to correctly set dual booting up. I didn't use lilo
now for a long time as grub is more comfortable I feel.

Alexander


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