[Grml] Rerunning lilo
Michael Prokop
mika at grml.org
Sat Sep 23 15:57:31 CEST 2006
* Scott Ford <w8sef at 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-
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