On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 17:52, Rony Bill wrote:
Thanks for the help but unfortunately it is still not detecting the lilo partition. I tried (hd0,12) and (hd0,11) too but still not result. I have done a clean install of RedHat and the Edumorphix but no result still. I also find that this Debian linux is more like a toy than a serious os. Anyway my hdd partition for the lilo in fdisk is /dev/hda12. Any other ideas?
(hd0,12) under grub means /dev/hda13 (grub starts in numbering from 0)
your options: 1. try using the grub command line. and see what " root (hd0,11) " shows up. If it detects the FS it will print out a useful msg.
2. what FS is this hdd partition, grub detects ext2, reiserfs... not sure of any of the other ones..
3. perhaps the stage2 files of grub are corrupt?
4. ok.. this is a novice mistake, but sometimes common. are you editing the right conf file ? the easiest way to figure this out,is to try booting your sys from the grub command line you get at the boot prompt. (see point 1)
Erle