On Saturday 23 February 2002 02:19, you wrote: > John Richard Smith wrote: > > George, > > > > Well , It's a long story, stimulated by your suggestions I soon found > > [snip] > > > All of this has so far accomplished nothing by way of success. I guess > > there is something else wrong as well, haven't a clue what. > > a part of it could be my fault. tired, up late, not thoroughly reading what > i had written... > > after editing lilo, i should have had this line in, '/sbin/lilo'. without > that, lilo config will not be written. > > so, run rescue again, > > +++ > boot lm8.1 cd, at start screen, press 'f1' function, at command line > text prompt, enter 'rescue', press enter. > > after boot, at command line; > > cd /etc > cp fstab fstab.org > vi fstab > > insert line; > > /dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1 > > [note: this sets up for following mount] > > write and quit vi. > > mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk > cd /mnt/disk/etc > /sbin/lilo > > lilo will report back with new settings. > > > It seems strange that > > drakX install programme fails to create correct entries in the first > > place. > > that is what i am wondering about and you are first one with an indicaition > that there is a problem. why? good question. wish i had an answer. it may > be a bug, or a hardware problem. > > > This is a new computer, which I have assembled from parts bought in and > > installed by myself. I did wonder whether there might of been something > > not configured right in the AMI Bios programme so I spent some time going > > over all the entries, just in case. Can not say I found anything > > particularly disturbing. > > i have 3 systems with ami bios that have worked ok with mandrake 8.0. can > not say about lm8.1. a fellow golum member made lm8.1 install iso's for me, > but they were corrupt and another member is making a new set for me. will > install lm8.1 when i get them. > > > So I am stumped at the moment. > > that may be my fault for not sending complete steps to get lilo up. > > my apoligies. here after, i will triple check what i send... > > > anyway, try rescue again, do lilo, and we will go from there. > > > tc,hago. > > g > . Hello George , your on the right track. You see the above creates the correct files and their text entries , after exiting VI , I cat the files and the new enties are there, but rebooting simply removes them, they disappear, fstab returns to old text, and lilo.conf is deleted. That is why they don't boot.
so , after the rescue process and exiting VI , on the rescue /]# I type /sbin/lilo , which returns the symbol > as if it wants something more ? I tried rebooting again, but the same result. So, something is taking over after the remedial rescue work and upon rebooting is undoing it all. I guess this is ment to be so , it is some failsafe precaution system to stop people like me messing up. However it also prevents people like me correcting the problem. I guess that there is something wrong with the way I an trying to get the new text adopted. I don't think it is to do with my VI editor procedure, that seems OK. It's about geting these newly created text and files adopted by the system. -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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