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Dear Jonathan, How far in to the boot process are you getting. is any part of LILO appearing or are you getting to kernel panics? Also does /etc/fstab reflect the changes to the file system you are making especialy for / and swap! Regards Robin Cornelius -----Original Message----- From: owner-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jonathan Melhuish Sent: 24 April 2003 17:39 To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [LUG] lilo.conf problems Something obviously needs to be done about this, as I have had similar problems and so have both my two linux recruits; you change the location of the boot disk and the whole thing falls to peices :-( Anyway, we are trying to swap the drives that are currently on the primary IDE channel (DVD, CD-RW) with those on the secondary channel (both hard drives), in an effort to get the CD burner working under linux, such that it looks like this: Primary IDE master: Linux boot disk Primary IDE slave: Windows disk Secondary IDE master: CD-RW Secondary IDE slave: DVD-ROM So would somebody point out to me what I've forgotten in lilo.conf, because I'm obviously going blind (or braindead)! _________________________________________ boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=:-)Linux!! keytable=/boot/fr-latin1.klt prompt nowarn timeout=160 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=:-)Linux!! root=/dev/hda6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" read-only _________________________________________ Which works fine... with the hard disk on the secondary master (hdc)! Wierd... what are we doing wrong? Cheers, Jon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.