Hiya,

I'm having a few problems booting a server thats just been installed with Slack 9.1

The server is a HP LH3 with 3 SCSI disks on a Raid 5 controller.

I installed slack, thought I'd created lilo ok and told it to save it on root rather than mbr and then when I finished installing I rebooted the server.

When the server boots it stops dead in grub.

Why is it doing this, and what have I missed during setup?

Luckily I created a bootdisk during the setup process and I can boot
the server into linux using that.

I prefer it though if the server booted from it's own disks. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Steve

Did you run 'lilo' after saving the changes to lilo.conf ?

did you install lilo itself in the mbr of the primary hdd ?

Yep I've ran lilo and lilo.conf is set to /dev/sda2. Fdisk is showing /dev/sda2 as being bootable, but I've no idea if lilo is installed in the mbr.

How can I check this and fix it without re-installing?

Thanks

lilo /mbr

Hi.

That's what I need to do!


Thanks for all your help.

Steve.