On Sunday 25 October 2015 08:19:41 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 25 October 2015 06:57:06 David Baron wrote: > > Using the live disk, went back to the old (failing!) 80gig disk, > > edited back to where I was, bound the /dev and chroot and mounted what > > I needed. > > update-initramfs and lilo worked without any segfault. > > > > So back up. Time to buy another big disk and move stuff or reinstall > > with Jesse. Trouble is these big SATAs are not so great. That 80gig > > IDE which smart claims is pre-failure (but does not totally support) > > predates them all. > > Another thought comes to mind since you mentioned a big disk, but I don't > recall the size if it has been quoted in this thread. > > But In installing linuxcnc (debian wheezy based) on fresh disks, I have > twice now been forced to allocate a /boot partition at the beginning of > a 2 terabyte disk. > > This may not be the reason, but my theory is that by the time the install > gets around to installing grub, (its the last thing it does) its boot > files are too far into the disk for bios/lilo/grub2 to find them, so the > reboot at the end of the install fails. > > The worst part of that is that the partitioner will not accept a 1 > gigabyte partition, which is a great plenty, so I was forced to use 5% > of the disk as a boot partition. > > That is about 47 gigabytes, of which <1% is actually used. Ridiculous, > but it works. Those 3 machines would be happy as clams with a 20 > gigabyte disk. Even SSD's are bigger than that these days. > > So I am left wondering if this might be a solution to your boot problem. > > lilo has been out of favor for a goodly piece of a decade, and with even > grub1 being far more versatile, I am amazed to hear of someone still > using it. I have no clue what its LBA capabilities are in light of the > sizes of todays drives. > > If someone could elaborate on that, it might also be of educational value > here. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
I started with wheezy 64 bit install and grub2. Did not have any clue how it worked but it did. When upgraded to Sid, added a kernel and wanted to keep the older on around just-in-case, I had no idea how to do this with Grub2 so I went back to Lilo. Lilo also makes it easy of have a systemd and older-style init choice, the latter saved me recently. Running afoul of having two 1 terra disks around could have been the problem. I have no understanding of this business. I had no problem reading and writing the partition I wanted to make root. Just could not do anything in it, either chroot or on boot into the system which malfunctioned. How do I make custom boot menus, kernel, init choices and such using the Grub?
