[oclug] Help with LILO problems on install

[Dave Edwards]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 18:02:19 -0400 "Stephen Grant"  wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>   I need help installing Red Hat 7 on my system.  I'll try to include as
> much information as possible.
> 
> PIII-933
> on Primary IDE:
> MASTER: Quantum 30 gig
> SLAVE:  Fujitsu 10 gig
> 
> on Secondary IDE:
> MASTER: CD-ROM
> Slave:  CD/RW
<snip>
> The installation goes well, but at the final screen that asks me to
> reboot I get an error that wraps across two lilnes that is truncated to:
> 
> Warning: /dev/hdb is no...  I caught a glimpse of the rest of it before
> it disappeared and I believe the rest says not on disk.
> 
> I believe the device in question is the 10 gig drive I am trying to
> install  to.  When I reboot the system I get just the letter L in Lilo
>and it hangs there.
<snip>

Do you remember how you set up your various disk drives?  On a typical
system, /dev/hda is the harddrive and /dev/hdb is the cdrom.  I'm not an
expert in this area, but note carefully which of your physical drives is
which /dev/hd? .  LILO might be looking for something that doesn't exist
where it is looking. 

Dave.
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