Other than the satisfaction of triumph over lilo, what's stopping you from
installing grub on the debian drive?
Levi
> Okay, maybe I'm being dramatic, but this is frustrating. I have a
> computer
> with 2 disks, hda with Gentoo on it and hdb with Debian Woody on it. hda
> contains grub in the MBR, and it can successfully boot into either the
> Debian
> or the Gentoo system. hdb has LILO on in the MBR (but I've also tried the
> first sector of hdb1), and gives me the familiar "L 01" error and doesn't
> boot the Debian system. Here is my fstab:
> -------------------------------------------
> boot="/dev/hdb"
>
> image="/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4"
> label="2.4.18"
> root="/dev/hdb3"
> ---------------------------------------------
> I've tried linear and LBA32, etc., with no luck. Here is the output of
> sfdisk:
> ---------------------------------------------
> sfdisk -l /dev/xxx >/tmp/hdmaps.log 2>&1
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 7297 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
>
> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 * 0+ 11 12- 96358+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb2 12 135 124 996030 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hdb3 136 7296 7161 57520732+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
> -----------------------------------
> Here is some output I think is unusual:
> ericdeb:~# lilo.real -M /dev/hdb
> Fatal: Cannot open /boot/mbr.b: No such file or directory
> -----------------------------------
> How do I regenerate that file? I thought that's what the -M switch was
> supposed to do? Thank you greatly to anyone who has some insights into
> this.
> -Eric
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