Lilo, help please!

[cal herrmann]

Thanks, Mark and ME.
1. lbu32 was my miscopying, it is lba32.
2. The EZDrive happens before the Mandrake boot screen. So I suppose it is in 
part of the MBR, or a vector to it?  Will lilo -u really restore the MBR if 
EZDrive has modified it? I hope so! (feeling cautious)
3. I had seen GRUB mentioned, but knew nothing at all about it.  So I have 
been reading the referenced manual, thank you. Lilo has mounted GRUB, since 
it flashes before the Mandrake screen with the grubby choices. 
in /boot/grub/menu.lst I see:
	timeout 5
	color black/cyan yellow/cyan
	i18fn (hd0,0)/grub/messages
	keytable (hd0/0) /us.klt
	altconfig file )hd0,0)/grub/menu.once
	default 0
	title linux
	kernel (hd0,0) vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd1 hdc=ide-scsi dwfs=mount
	title failsafe
	....same as line above but adds failsafe at end
Nothing about a windows option.
the file /boot/grub/messages has welcome to grub, etc; use %c & %c keys for 
selecting ... etc
/boot/grub/menu.once is empty (101 character size but no text)
/boot/grub/device-map says (hd0) is /dev/hda; (hd1) is /dev/hdd.

I took another hard-disk, left over from something else,  tried it and it 
loaded without EZdrive: I had at one time updated the bios but didn't bother 
to change from EZDrive. So that is to be done, surely.

 The video card is a Number Nine, Revolution IV (driver listed now as being 
in Mandrake 8.2, can't find it in 8.1): I had gotten an SGI LCD screen, I 
think easier on my wife's eyes.

I tried the "other" lines in lilo.config: ran lilo and it replied:
	added linux*
	added failure
	Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature.

Thanks again, Cal 

On Sunday 14 July 2002 04:01 pm, you wrote:
> Oooops,
> Add the following to lilo.conf, then re-run lilo.
>
> other=/dev/hda1
>          label=Windoze
>          table=/dev/hda
>
> I see that you have a delay of 5 seconds on the boot loader....  I wonder
> why it flashes past.  The lbu32 is not clear to me.  I know there is a
> lba32 option which gets around the 1024 limit for accessing
> linux.....  Although it is not a supported option from what I remember....
> Use at your own risk.
>
> What type of video card are you using.... Chipset?
>
> Reboot..... and pray...
>
> Take a peek at grub from gnu's website.  Lilo can be a pain in the you know
> what....
>
> At 04:16 PM 7/14/2002 -0700, cal herrmann wrote:
> >I have tried to install Mandrake 8.1 in my wife's computer, older, win98.
> >Lilo seems to flash past in an instant if I look close, booting Linux
> > without a choice for windows. (Maybe it has made a wise choice, but my
> > wife needs some things in windows! And do I also).
> >Machine has two drives, all win on the first, second set to all linux. 
> > Since it is older, it uses the "EZDrive program" to extend HD addressing
> > (reassigns to 255 heads).  I see:
> >less /etc/lilo.conf
> >boot=/dev/hda
> >map=/boot/map
> >install=/boot/boot.b
> >default=linux
> >keytable=/boot/us.klt
> >lba 32
> >prompt
> >timeout=50
> >message=/boot/message
> >menu-scheme=wbibw:wb:bw
> >image=/boot/vmlinux
> >         label=linux
> >         root=/dev/hdd1
> >         append=" hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount"
> >         readonly
> >image=/boot/vmlinux
> >         label=failsafe
> >         root=/dev/hdd1
> >append="hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount failsafe"
> >         readonly
> >I see a very good explanation of Lilo in the Linux Bible book, far beyond
> > my understanding yet, I need advice, what to do next.  Fearful!  Can I
> > get the direction back to include the windows boot? Should I uninstall
> > and start over? (Xwindows doesn't work, I haven't found the right driver,
> > but linux seems to work fine as command-line).
> >Thanks, Cal