[Grml] Fwd: Rerunning lilo
Steffen Liebergeld
stepardo at gmail.com
Sat Sep 23 10:21:50 CEST 2006
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> Von: "Scott Ford" <w8sef at sbcglobal.net>
> Datum: 23. September 2006 04:46:29 MESZ
> An: "'Steffen Liebergeld'" <stepardo at gmail.com>
> Betreff: Rerunning lilo
>
> 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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mfg, Steffen Liebergeld
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