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[intjonathan]

anyone here a lilo guru? Still trying to get the secondary loader to work on my scsi disk. For some reason /sbin/lilo puts the 16-sector secondary loader on the IDE disk. Everything else works but that secondary loader is put on the wrong disk. Anything in lilo.conf (or maybe the boot.b?) that would cause that?

In other geeky news, TTT does kick ass, no matter what juxtaposejade says. And what kicks ass about it is that it exists and doesn't suck. The fact that these films were made at all, and happen to be a good movies, makes them incredible things. No mistake about it - I will never claim that TTT is either great cinema or great adaptation.But the books are too perfect as books to make perfect movies, why should we expect it? I think complaining about extraneous shots of women and children, or the occasional mischaracterization (Faramir) is picking nits. Think about it: no major flaws. Jackson didn't get bad actors, ugly sets, bad effects, or major plot holes. The world looks and behaves in a believeable and real manner. It just doesn't suck. It could be better, but so could a great many movies.

Anyway that's enough of that. Bedtime.

Comments

[ex-athelstan105.livejournal.com]

TT may not have had any bad actors, but it seems to have a bad director. wtf is up with gimli anyway?

I actually havent seen ttt yet. =-X
but I hear gimli doesnt change much from the first movie and his voice is used for TreeBeard also.

[ex-athelstan105.livejournal.com]

oh, about lilo. are you trying to write a boot sector onto the scsi drive? or do you already ahve one and jsut want lilo to use it as the primary boot device?

[niralisse.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to write a correct boot sector. The primary sectors, the map, and all the images write to the scsi drive correctly, but the second stage loader writes to the IDE drive. So when I boot off the scsi drive, I get "LI" and then it stops.

hey

[fuzzandfeedback.livejournal.com]

check the points I made on that original entry by Lea. I respond point by point, making a few concessions.

I agree, it kicked ass.

[ex-athelstan105.livejournal.com]

lol k, shouldve predicted this, but we are nubs. I dont think lilo does that for you, tho I may be wrong. there is another proggy. let me look at some man pages. I always jsut went back into the redhat installers to put extra bootsectors on drives. I am sure there is anotehr way since the old redhat isntaller was jsut a few perl scripts wrapped around some small bins.

Re: hey

[juxtaposejade.livejournal.com]

Why don't you stop being such a smart ass.. it's our own opinions in most of the cases... let bigons be bigons and leave it ALONE.

what's a "bigon"?

[niralisse.livejournal.com]

WHO's a smartass? At least I haven't taken to cursing. Relax. You've started a discussion you don't want to have. Instead of talking about it some more, ignore it. People will get bored and go quiet. You're making a fool of yourself with your little tirades. If you'd let it go I'd not have said anything more. As it is you've lost a lot of respect. Remember, it's just a movie and they're just opinions. Relax.

[niralisse.livejournal.com]

Actually lilo is doing that for me, but it's doing it to the wrong drive. When you run /sbin/lilo -v -v -v it tells you what drive it puts each part on. When it does the second stage loader, it maps /dev/hda (the ide drive) instead of /dev/ida/disc0/disc (the scsi drive).
In lilo.conf though,

disc=/dev/ida/disc0/disc
install=/dev/ida/disc0/part2

There's no /dev/ide or /hda or anything I can see in the lilo.conf that would cause it to map /dev/hda. Something I'm missing here?