On Fri, 23 Nov 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
With the system running the OS on the USB stick, I wasn't sure how to run lilo for the hard drive. I tried going to /sbin on the hard drive using Dolphin (I'm guessing this is KDEs GUI file manager), right clicking on lilo, and clicking "run in konsole" but get an error message "Fatal: Cannot open: /etc/lilo.conf. I'm making a guess here, but even though I'm running the lilo on the hard drive, is it still looking to the USB stick for /etc/lilo.conf? While there's a lilo.conf_example on the USB stick, there's no lilo.conf. Is there a way to run lilo for the hard drive while telling it to look in /etc on the hard drive for lilo.conf?
Ah, that helps my understanding. When you're running off the USB drive you need to mount the hard drive and each directory you need to access, such as /etc. I don't recall off-hand what the full procedure is as I do this only every few years when installation doesn't work as expected. Tomorrow will probably bring others to this thread and quickly get you booting off the hard drive. Regards, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
