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Re: Problem with LILO



On Sat, 26 Dec 1998, Itamar S.-T. wrote:

> In my case I used fdisk /mbr and then lilo and that fixed the problem (thanks,
> Ram).And it was a 2GB disk.

Come to think of it, I had an annoying (and I mean, really really annoying
problem) with LILO after installing Winblowz98. As you all know,
Windows(tm) thinks it's the only operating system in the world, and thus
it overwrites your MBR without even asking you. I have a SCSI 2GB disk as
my root device, and two other IDE disks. The boot order in the BIOS is
SCSI 1st, IDE 2nd. After I installed Windows98, I booted up Linux with a
diskette, and ran lilo to update the MBR. But, surprise surprise, lilo
told me that `Warning: /dev/sda is not the first disk'. And it kept on
telling me that no matter what I did, for 3 hours of different games I
played with it. I never encountered it before. When I got tired of it, I
disabled the IDE interfaces in the BIOS, rebooted, and since now /dev/sda
was the *only* disk left, lilo finally agreed to set the master boot
record. (I didn't mention it, but till I did this, after running lilo and
getting the warning, the system booted up with LI . I tried all the lilo
tricks I know of).

After I managed to run lilo, it booted up correctly, and then I reenabled
the IDE interfaces in the BIOS, and went on with my life.

Go figure.

--Ariel

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