Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Simon wrote:
On Monday 09 May 2005 16:07, Snapafun wrote:
Trying to make a rescue disk for my PCLinuxOs installation, installed at hdb5, but keep getting the error at the bottom of the following even though I am successfully booting into PCLinuxOs and "linux263" using the lilo.conf included here.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] frank]# mkrescue --iso 2880+0 records in 2880+0 records out Making filesystem mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) /tmp/mkrescue-emu is not a block special device. Proceed anyway? (y,n) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 24 inodes, 2880 blocks 144 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 1 block group 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 24 inodes per group
Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
This filesystem will be automatically checked every 27 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. Mounting filesystem Copying files... `/boot/us.klt' -> `/tmp/mkrescue-flp/lang.ktl' `/boot/initrd263.img' -> `/tmp/mkrescue-flp/initrd' `/boot/vmlinuz263' -> `/tmp/mkrescue-flp/linux' done.
Running /sbin/lilo ...
Ignoring entry 'boot'
Fatal: '/dev/' is not a whole disk device
isn't boot pointing to hda and you want to boot hdb5 ???
The "boot=" entry is where the boot loader is installed. It is normaly /dev/hda for an IDE system. You would only make it /dev/hdb5 if you were using another boot manager that would then transfere control over to this one when you selected that menu entry. For example, if you used System Commander, and had more then one Linux install, you might have an entry called Mandrake that would then transfere conftoll to lilo installed on /dev/hdb5.
The problem here is probably with the lilo.conf generated by mkrescue that would normaly be used to boot the CD image it is creating. But that is not what is posted here.
Mikkel
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Thanks Mikkel
I made the installation onto hdb5 using the PCLinuxOs ' Install to hard drive ' Option and I am attempting to make this rescue disk from within that installation so as to be able to boot back into it should my efforts in getting everything to boot from my hda installation of MDK10 fall over.
Just seems strange that this installation cannot make its own rescue iso - the same occurred when attempting to do it directly to a floppy.
So any thoughts on how I can get lilo.conf generated correctly here ?
Regards
SnapafunFrank
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