All, I'm still trying to find my way through my boot / lilo / lilo vs. grub problems. Have put grub on the backburner for a moment in favor of a step by step effort to understand what's going on.
When I attempt to install lilo on my system now, I get the following error: LILO, the LInux LOader, sets up your system to boot Linux directly from your hard disk, without the need for a boot floppy. WARNING! Your /etc/fstab configuration file gives device /dev/hda3 as the root filesystem device. This doesn't look to me like an "ordinary" block device. Either your fstab is broken and you should fix it, or you are using hardware (such as a RAID array) which this simple configuration program does not handle. You should either repair the situation or hand-roll your own /etc/lilo.conf configuration file; you can then run /usr/sbin/liloconfig again to retry the configuration process. Documentation for LILO can be found in /usr/share/doc/lilo/. My question is, what is wrong with the following /etc/fstab file? I ==haven't touched it==, ever. Why is lilo suddenly complaining, and what in the following setup implies that /dev/hda3 is -not- a valid block device? Or is that determination coming from elsewhere? # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> /dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom2 /cdrom2 iso9660 defaults,rw,user,noauto 0 0 Thanks, Glenn Becker +----------------+ http://www.burningclown.com "Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All" +----------------+
