OK, let me first detail how my system is set up.
Drive 1 Partitions:
Win 98 (Pri. DOS)
Win 2000 (Ext. Dos Logical)
Files (Ext. Dos Logical)
Software (Ext. Dos Logical)
Drive 2 Partitions:
Linux /
Linux Swap
Linux Home
Both drives are 45gb IBMs and sit on the ATA/66 controller ports on my Asus CUBX mobo. My CD and CD-RW drives sit on the standard IDE controllers.
Mandrake 7.2 installed fine. I followed the LittleWhiteDog instructions on installing LILO to the / partition and so on...
1. Install LILO to / partition (hdg1)
2. Copy boot sector of Linux into floppy (linux.bin)
3. Copy Linux.bin onto C: drive (Win 98 partition)
4. Edit boot.ini to add in the Linux boot option
All I get when selecting Linux from the boot menu is 'LI' - and nothing else. Linux boots perfectly from the floppy boot disk created during installation - no problem there at all. And it runs well too.
On advice from a couple of the members over at LinuxNewbie, I edited lilo.conf to include the 'linear' option. Went through the same procedure again, exactly the same result - 'LI' and nothing more.
Now - if I can boot from floppy, why not with the above method? I don't want to start overwriting the MBR (Grub managed to screw that up on a previous install) or getting into third-party bootloaders if at all possible. The LittleWhiteDog method is simple and easy to remove - if only I could get it to work.
Anbody have any idea what is going on?
Drive 1 Partitions:
Win 98 (Pri. DOS)
Win 2000 (Ext. Dos Logical)
Files (Ext. Dos Logical)
Software (Ext. Dos Logical)
Drive 2 Partitions:
Linux /
Linux Swap
Linux Home
Both drives are 45gb IBMs and sit on the ATA/66 controller ports on my Asus CUBX mobo. My CD and CD-RW drives sit on the standard IDE controllers.
Mandrake 7.2 installed fine. I followed the LittleWhiteDog instructions on installing LILO to the / partition and so on...
1. Install LILO to / partition (hdg1)
2. Copy boot sector of Linux into floppy (linux.bin)
3. Copy Linux.bin onto C: drive (Win 98 partition)
4. Edit boot.ini to add in the Linux boot option
All I get when selecting Linux from the boot menu is 'LI' - and nothing else. Linux boots perfectly from the floppy boot disk created during installation - no problem there at all. And it runs well too.
On advice from a couple of the members over at LinuxNewbie, I edited lilo.conf to include the 'linear' option. Went through the same procedure again, exactly the same result - 'LI' and nothing more.
Now - if I can boot from floppy, why not with the above method? I don't want to start overwriting the MBR (Grub managed to screw that up on a previous install) or getting into third-party bootloaders if at all possible. The LittleWhiteDog method is simple and easy to remove - if only I could get it to work.
Anbody have any idea what is going on?