Hi everyone, I am new to the list and Linux. I installed GRML on my Toshiba a55. I am blind and I was able to resize my hard drive, and install the grml to the hard drive with no problem. This is what I had partitioned my hard drive to, hda1 26G, hda2 2g fat32, hda3 1G Linux swap, and hda4 Linux. Thank you guys for setting up such an awesome distribution. I have been looking for this for a long time. I have been reading and learning . I figured that I would reconfigure my hard rive so that I had an extended partition. This is what I changed it to hda1 26G ntfs, hda2 1G Linux swap, hda33G Linux, hda4 extended, hda5 fat16 5G, and hda6 4G Linux. I reran the grml2hd script, it went well, it said that lilo ran successfully. However it did not. So I mounted hda3 the Linux partition, and copied the /mnt/hda3/etc/lilo.conf to the /etc/lilo.conf. I then ran /sbin/lilo It failed saying that /dev/hda3 is not set to be active. I then discovered that the line /device/hda3 was in the place where /dev/had been in my original configuration. I attempted to change it to /dev/had. I tried to rerun lilo again, it failed attempting to map to unmapped device oxoee or something. I am sorry I did not write exactly what it said down. However I believe that you guys probably are familiar with what is happening. I do not have a clue though. I cannot seem to find any thing on what is happening on the net either. Thank you guys in advanced. Scott
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* Scott Ford w8sef@sbcglobal.net [20060923 15:49]:
I am new to the list and Linux. I installed GRML on my Toshiba a55. I am blind and I was able to resize my hard drive, and install the grml to the hard drive with no problem. This is what I had partitioned my hard drive to, hda1 26G, hda2 2g fat32, hda3 1G Linux swap, and hda4 Linux. Thank you guys for setting up such an awesome distribution. I have been looking for this for a long time. I have been reading and learning . I figured that I would reconfigure my hard rive so that I had an extended partition. This is what I changed it to hda1 26G ntfs, hda2 1G Linux swap, hda33G Linux, hda4 extended, hda5 fat16 5G, and hda6 4G Linux. I reran the grml2hd script, it went well, it said that lilo ran successfully. However it did not. So I mounted hda3 the Linux partition, and copied the /mnt/hda3/etc/lilo.conf to the /etc/lilo.conf. I then ran /sbin/lilo It failed saying that /dev/hda3 is not set to be active. I then discovered that the line /device/hda3 was in the place where /dev/had been in my original configuration. I attempted to change it to /dev/had. I tried to rerun lilo again, it failed attempting to map to unmapped device oxoee or something. I am sorry I did not write exactly what it said down. However I believe that you guys probably are familiar with what is happening. I do not have a clue though. I cannot seem to find any thing on what is happening on the net either. Thank you guys in advanced.
I'm not *really* sure what's going on because it's very hard to read your text. Using newlines to separate some sentences would simplify it. But let me guess what might be your problem:
Looks like you installed lilo into the partition where you did install grml into, instead of installing lilo into MBR of your harddisk.
Make sure the line containing boot= in /etc/lilo.conf is correct (AFAICS you need /dev/hda for it) and rerun lilo then. Make sure /proc and /sys are mounted if you are running lilo in a chroot environment.
If that does not work please show your lilo.conf (just attach it to your mail) and the commands you are using to fix your setup.
regards, -mika-
Mika, Thank you, for your help.I do not know what chroot environment Is. I am guessing that it is when I use the live cd to boot?.. I do not know how to mount the /proc and /sys? Will mounting the root linux /dev/hda3 partition make this happen? I have attached my lilo.conf file. /dev/hda1 26Gb ntfs win xp. /dev/hda2 1gb linux swap /dev/hda3 3Gb Linux root /dev/hda4 extended partition /dev/hda5 5Gb fat32 storage /dev/hda6 4Gb linux future /usr/home
I'm not *really* sure what's going o n because it's very hard to read your text. Using newlines to separate some sentences would simplify it. But let me guess what might be your problem:
Looks like you installed lilo into the partition where you did install grml into, instead of installing lilo into MBR of your harddisk.
Make sure the line containing boot= in /etc/lilo.conf is correct (AFAICS you need /dev/hda for it) and rerun lilo then. Make sure /proc and /sys are mounted if you are running lilo in a chroot environment.
If that Mika, Thank you, for your help.I do not know what chroot environment Is. I am guessing that it is when I use the live cd to boot?.. I do not know how to mount the /proc and /sys? Will mounting the root linux /dev/hda3 partition make this happen? I have attached my lilo.conf file. /dev/hda1 26Gb ntfs win xp. /dev/hda2 1gb linux swap /dev/hda3 3Gb Linux root /dev/hda4 extended partition /dev/hda5 5Gb fat32 storage /dev/hda6 4Gb linux future /usr/home
I'm not *really* sure what's going o n because it's very hard to read your text. Using newlines to separate some sentences would simplify it. But let me guess what might be your problem:
Looks like you installed lilo into the partition where you did install grml into, instead of installing lilo into MBR of your harddisk.
Make sure the line containing boot= in /etc/lilo.conf is correct (AFAICS you need /dev/hda for it) and rerun lilo then. Make sure /proc and /sys are mounted if you are running lilo in a chroot environment.
If that does not work please show your lilo.conf (just attach it to your mail) and the commands you are using to fix your setup.
regards, -mika-
* Scott Ford w8sef@sbcglobal.net [20060925 04:15]:
Thank you, for your help.I do not know what chroot environment Is. I am guessing that it is when I use the live cd to boot?..
Mount your partition ('mount /mnt/hda3') and the use the command chroot to "switch into the mounted partition" ('chroot /mnt/hda3'). Then you can operate in the harddisk installation of grml if it's on /dev/hda3.
I do not know how to mount the /proc and /sys?
mount /proc mount /sys
Will mounting the root linux /dev/hda3 partition make this happen? I have attached my lilo.conf file. /dev/hda1 26Gb ntfs win xp. /dev/hda2 1gb linux swap /dev/hda3 3Gb Linux root /dev/hda4 extended partition /dev/hda5 5Gb fat32 storage /dev/hda6 4Gb linux future /usr/home
That's not your lilo.conf.
regards, -mika-
Mika, I forgot to atach the atachment. Here it is. Thank you. Scott
-----Original Message----- From: grml-bounces@mur.at [mailto:grml-bounces@mur.at] On Behalf Of Michael Prokop Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 3:04 AM To: grml@mur.at Subject: Re: [Grml] Rerunning lilo
* Scott Ford w8sef@sbcglobal.net [20060925 04:15]:
Thank you, for your help.I do not know what chroot environment Is. I am guessing that it is when I use the live cd to boot?..
Mount your partition ('mount /mnt/hda3') and the use the command chroot to "switch into the mounted partition" ('chroot /mnt/hda3'). Then you can operate in the harddisk installation of grml if it's on /dev/hda3.
I do not know how to mount the /proc and /sys?
mount /proc mount /sys
Will mounting the root linux /dev/hda3 partition make this happen? I have attached my lilo.conf file. /dev/hda1 26Gb ntfs win xp. /dev/hda2 1gb linux swap /dev/hda3 3Gb Linux root /dev/hda4 extended partition /dev/hda5 5Gb fat32 storage /dev/hda6 4Gb linux future /usr/home
That's not your lilo.conf.
regards, -mika-
* Scott Ford w8sef@sbcglobal.net [20060925 14:35]:
I forgot to atach the atachment. Here it is. Thank you.
Ok, then boot into grml from CD. Run 'mount /mnt/hda3 ; chroot /mnt/hda3' and edit /etc/lilo.conf. Add the following lines to the end of your /etc/lilo.conf:
other=/dev/hda1 label=Windows
so you can boot your WinXP installation on /dev/hda1 as well. The rest looks ok.
Then run 'mount /proc ; mount /sys' and execute lilo afterwards. 'umount -a', leave the chroot via 'exit' and reboot your system. It should work then.
regards, -mika-
Mika, That did it. Thank you very much. I did not know how or what chroot was, and I did not know about mounting /proc, and /sys. Them where the reason for my failers. Thanks again. Later Scott
-----Original Message----- From: grml-bounces@mur.at [mailto:grml-bounces@mur.at] On Behalf Of Michael Prokop Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 8:41 AM To: grml@mur.at Subject: Re: [Grml] Rerunning lilo
* Scott Ford w8sef@sbcglobal.net [20060925 14:35]:
I forgot to atach the atachment. Here it is. Thank you.
Ok, then boot into grml from CD. Run 'mount /mnt/hda3 ; chroot /mnt/hda3' and edit /etc/lilo.conf. Add the following lines to the end of your /etc/lilo.conf:
other=/dev/hda1 label=Windows
so you can boot your WinXP installation on /dev/hda1 as well. The rest looks ok.
Then run 'mount /proc ; mount /sys' and execute lilo afterwards. 'umount -a', leave the chroot via 'exit' and reboot your system. It should work then.
regards, -mika-
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