Help needed: can't boot with LILO on new hdd
From: martines (martines_at_REMOVEacn.waw.pl)
Date: 09/30/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:25:09 +0200
Hello all,
I've bought 160 gb samsung hdd. I've already got Gentoo installation on my
old 40gb hdd so I followed Hard-Disk-Upgrade Howto to transfer linux to my
new disk Files transfer didn't give any troubles. I edited lilo.conf
(listing 1) and fstab to make appropriate changes. I executed 'lilo'
command successfully. However when I reboot I got either DISK BOOT FAILURE
(before unsuccessful XP installation - thats another story) or simple hang
(after unsuccessful XP installation).
Listing 1 - /new-disk/etc/lilo.conf
=== begin ===
boot=/dev/hda
#disk=/dev/hda
# bios=0x80
# sectors=63
# heads=16
# cylinders=310101
#disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x81
map=/new-disk/boot/map
install=/new-disk/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=30
vga=791
lba32
#linear
default=linux-hda
# new linux
image=/new-disk/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r6
label=linux-hda
root=/dev/hda7
initrd=/new-disk/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r6
append=" root=/dev/hda7 init=/linuxrc acpi=off"
# old linux
image=/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r6
label=linux-hdb
root=/dev/hdb8
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r6
append=" root=/dev/hdb8 init=/linuxrc acpi=off"
other=/dev/hdb2
label=win
table=/dev/hdb
=== end ===
Since Lilo menu doesn't appear at all I can't even boot to linux-hdb which
is my old linux. What is more confusing I can't even boot to my new linux
from working Lilo installed on /dev/hdb (old hdd) using lilo.conf as
follows:
=== begin ===
disk=/dev/hda bios=0x80
disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x81
boot=/dev/hdb
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=30
vga=791
lba32
default=win
# doesn't work
image=/new-disk/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r6
label=linux-new
root=/dev/hda7
initrd=/new-disk/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r6
append=" root=/dev/hda7 init=/linuxrc acpi=off"
# works
image=/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r6
label=linux
root=/dev/hdb8
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r6
append=" root=/dev/hdb8 init=/linuxrc acpi=off"
# works
other=/dev/hdb2
label=win
table=/dev/hdb
=== end ===
When I choose linux-new from Lilo menu couple of dots (showing progress)
appears and computer hangs.
Here is my partition table on new hdd:
=== begin ===
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 0.000-152627.835
megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 7000.383 152627.835 extended lba
5 7000.414 7030.898 logical ext2 boot
6 7030.929 7530.468 logical linux-swap
7 7530.500 17530.734 logical reiserfs
8 17530.765 38010.656 logical ntfs
9 38010.687 70771.148 logical fat32
10 70771.179 96371.296 logical ntfs
11 96371.328 152627.835 logical ntfs
=== end ===
I've just learned about parted so I installed it. It prints following
warning:
Using /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
Warning: Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that
another
partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it
didn't have
the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may cause
(fixable) problems with some boot loaders.
Perhaps this is the reason why I can't boot new partition (but why I can't
boot old linux using Lilo from /dev/hda). How to fix it?
My computer is an Athlon on NForce2 MSI mobo.
Thank you in advance.
martines
P.S. And here is an output from windows/dos utility 'FINDPART.EXE tables':
Findpart, version 4.45 - for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
Copyright Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, 1999-2004.
OS: Windows 5.1.2600 Dodatek Service Pack. 1 Partition tables:
Disk: 1 Cylinders: 310101 Heads: 16 Sectors: 63 MB: 152628
--PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB --Start CHS- ---End CHS-- BS CHS
0 1 0F 14336784298245024145627 14223# 0 1310100* 15 63 OK
14223 1*83 63 62433 30 14223# 1 1 14284* 15 63 OK OK
14223 2 05 62496 1023120 499 14285# 0 1 15299* 15 63 OK
14285 1 82 63 1023057 499 14285# 1 1 15299* 15 63 OK
14285 2 05 1085616 20480544 10000 15300# 0 1 35617* 15 63 OK
15300 1 83 63 20480481 10000 15300# 1 1 35617* 15 63 NB OK
15300 2 05 21566160 41942880 20479 35618# 0 1 77227* 15 63 OK
35618 1 07 63 41942817 20479 35618# 1 1 77227* 15 63 OK OK
35618 2 05 63509040 67093488 32760 77228# 0 1143788* 15 63 OK
77228 1 0B 63 67093425 32760 77228# 1 1143788* 15 63 R0 OK
77228 2 05130602528 52429104 25600143789# 0 1195801* 15 63 OK
143789 1 07 63 52429041 25600143789# 1 1195801* 15 63 OK OK
143789 2 05183031632115213392 56256195802# 0 1310100* 15 63 OK
195802 1 07 63115213329 56256195802# 1 1310100* 15 63 OK OK
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