[GRLUG] Active Partitions

[Justin Denick]

On Dec 5, 2007 10:44 AM, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2007 10:35 AM, Justin Denick <justin.denick at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Tim, I thought the same thing too. But LILO (appears) to have
> > not been called. LILO has a sort of
> > debugger, that lets you know how far it got, if it was called at all.
> > Since I see the "No Operating System
> > Found / Invalid System Disk " sort of message, I concluded that the
> > bootloader was never executed.
>
> Gotcha...  yeah.  That certainly means you weren't getting far past POST :)
>
> > Upon even further investigation I have found that LILO, requires an
> > active partition.
> > I feel pretty dumb now, and I will no longer taunt GRUB, though I am
> > confused as to why the requisite does not follow
> > all of my machines.
>
> Right...  well, each machine is probably running slightly different
> versions.  Could be that some distributors patched theirs, or just
> certain versions, or whatever.  No way to know without a friendly
> changelog or bug tracker entry, mailing list message, or looking at
> the code itself.
>
LILO versions have no affect. 22.8 and 22.7.3 (my most common) have
the same effect.
FWIW, the version that failed me is 22.7.3, I have the same version on
the older intel board w/o active partitions
and it boot fine.

I do believe that the Board/BIOS is the underlying cause. But if you
follow the LILO instructions, making the partition active
(as I did NOT) than you'll have no worries.

>
> --tim
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