I'm not really very used to linux (and not used at all with lilo, having messing a bit just with GRUB in Fedora), so I'm having problems configuring it in a laptop with this HDDs configuration:
May look very strange (expecially sda1 and sda5) but I found all those partitions made by previous laptop user (my brother) and I wouldn't like to mess with the windows' ones if possible.Code:sda | | - sda1 ( logical partition ) | | | | - sda5 (windows SYSTEMROOT) | | - sda 2 ( another NTFS partition ) sdb | | - sdb1 ( NTFS partition ) | | - sdb2 ( ext3 partition where /boot files been copied to ) | | - sdb3 ( ext3 partition where / files been copied to ) | | - sdb4 ( swap )
By the way I followed tutorial for BT4, but when I saved lilo conf it says me something bout /dev/sdb is on the second hard disk, and rebooting hasn't show lilo screen...
where am i doing wrong??Code:here's my lilo configuration summarised: lba32 boot=/dev/sdb root=/dev/sdb3 . . . . image=/boot/vmlinux label="BT4" read-only initrd=/boot/splash.initrd append=quiet other = /dev/sda5 Label = "Windows XP" table = /dev/sda