On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > Dale Morris wrote: > > > I'm having a problem with LILO. I have windows installed in the first > > partition on my hd but somehow have wiped out the mbr. I've also tried to > > compile the new 2.4 kernel, but am getting the following error: > > cat bzImage > /vmlinuz > > cp /usr/src/linux/System.map / > > if [ -x /sbin/lilo ]; then /sbin/lilo; else /etc/lilo/install; fi > > Fatal: open /dev/hda1: Device not configured > > make[1]: *** [zlilo] Error 1 > > make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot' > > make: *** [bzlilo] Error 2 > > > > I've read the man page, but still am not having any luck. Thanks in advance. > > I can't give a big help here, but why not giving "grub" (the GRand Unified > Bootloader) a try.
Yes, why not. I think it's better than Lilo; it understands ReiserFS, which is very useful if you want to have your filesystem on every partition to be ReiserFS. The following is my /boot/grub/menu.lst file which is used for booting Linux and NT: # Boot automatically after 30 secs. timeout 30 # By default, boot the first entry. default 0 # Fallback to the second entry. fallback 1 # For booting Linux title linux1 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuzr root=/dev/hda1 # title linux1_single root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuzr root=/dev/hda1 single # title linux24 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz24 root=/dev/hda1 # # For booting Windows NT or Windows95 title nt rootnoverify (hd0,1) makeactive chainloader +1 # For loading DOS if Windows NT is installed # chainload /bootsect.dos My partitions: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 123 987966 83 Linux /dev/hda2 * 124 245 979933+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda3 246 376 1052257+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 377 913 4313452+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 377 393 136521 82 Linux swap To install grub on the harddisk: run grub when the prompt shows: root (hd0,0) setup (hd0,0) quit And then reboot your machine. Oki
