Addendum to Tale of Woe

Fri Apr 12 08:56:55 EDT 2002

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There was no &quot;magic&quot; involved. I was changing files and rerunning lilo and that's what I noticed had happened. I don't recall exactly what steps were taken that caused it but I, much like our friend here, once was changing hard drives around and rerunning lilo and I noticed that the lines in the lilo.conf file;
 
map-drive=0x80
 
to=0x82
 
map-drive=0x82
 
to=0x80
 
were changed. I don't have that machine here anymore and that may not be the exact syntax but those were the lines that were changed (8?) and when I changed them back to the original mapping, lilo booted ok.
 
On systems with multiple drives and changing master/slaves back and forth and rerunning lilo, as our friend was doing, I don't think it would take &quot;magic&quot; for that to get changed and I thought it would be a good place for our friend to look to solve his problem.

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On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 08:19, Robert Dege wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>&gt; I had something similar happen and was waiting to see the response you</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>&gt; gave from the other advise given. This may be irrelevant to you because</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>&gt; of your particular situation and I haven't been following that closely</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>&gt; but when a similar problem happened to me, I noticed that the line map=?</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>&gt; for drives in the /etc/lilo.conf files were not the same as when I</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>&gt; previously had it. Luckily I had a copy of my original lilo.conf file</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>&gt; and compared. When I put it back to the way it originally was, I booted</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>&gt; OK. Just throwin this out there for ya, if it works, great</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Seems odd that the lilo.conf file would just &quot;magically&quot; modify itself,</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>but I guess that would depend upon the distro you're using.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Perhaps a viewing of the lilo.conf is in order.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Dege</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>So Many Things in Life Would Be Really Funny</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>.... If They Weren't Happening To Me</FONT></FONT></I>
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