Giulio Orsero wrote:
> Jack Owens <jack@cox.net> ha scritto:
>
>
>>Recently, S.M.A.R.T said my /dev/hda needed to be replaced. This is the
>>drive's MBR that lilo uses. I installed the new drive, but the boot
>>floppy disk wouldn't work. I temporarily reinstalled the old "hda" drive
>
> You should post lilo.conf and tell where it's located, output of running
> lilo and from where you executed it (I assume you partitioned,
> formatted, and filled hda?)
>
>
>>hdc: host protected area => 1
>>
>>What does "host protected area => 1" mean. I looked in the KT4V bios for
>
> Nothing important, this is just one of those messages developers like to
> put to clobber boot messages, they like to see something theirs
> everytime their box boots (ie, like "not 100% native mode: will probe
> irqs later").
>
lilo.conf
rompt
timeout=50
default=linux
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
linear
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8
label=2.4.20-8
append="root=LABEL=/12"
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
read-only
append="root=LABEL=/12"
other=/dev/hda3
optional
label=DOS
OUTPUT from lilo execution:
[root@ip68-5-146-253 root]# lilo
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Added 2.4.20-8
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Added linux *
Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda3 doesn't have a valid boot signature
NOTE: new hardisk only has 2 primary partitions