lilo fstab
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 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda2 noneswapsw 0 0 proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/fd0/floppy autodefaults,user,noauto0 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 ++
Re: lilo fstab
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:16:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, [snip] When I attempt to install lilo on my system now, I get the following error: [snip] 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. [snip] 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 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda2 noneswapsw 0 0 proc /proc procdefaults00 /dev/fd0 /floppy autodefaults,user,noauto00 /dev/cdrom/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 00 /dev/cdrom2 /cdrom2 iso9660 defaults,rw,user,noauto 00 What does fdisk -l /dev/hda3 say? I'm assuming you've been booting off this already, so that simple lilo configuration program must be sucking. Just handroll your own lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo. Something like: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda3 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map compact vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=linux-X.X.X. Admittedly, been using GRUB for a while now, so I'm rusty on lilo.conf. You might need some LBA mode or some such as well... -- Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net
Re: lilo fstab
In re: my continued lilo problems ... What does fdisk -l /dev/hda3 say? This: Disk /dev/hda3: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3527 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System And when I run fdisk on /dev/hda, I get the following: Command (m for help): Command (m for help): Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 161489951 83 Linux /dev/hda262 122489982+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 123 3649 28330627+ 83 Linux Command (m for help): Anyone see problems with this? I'm wondering why fdisk -l /dev/hda3 doesn't really ... give any info, to speak of. I will try the suggested lilo.conf. Glenn ++ http://www.burningclown.com Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All ++
Re: lilo fstab: SOLVED
Hola, I ran the suggested /etc/lilo.conf file, ran /sbin/lilo and now all is well. Moving on. Thanks!! Am just not gonna worry about what I must've been doing wrong. :S Glenn ++ http://www.burningclown.com Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All ++
Re: lilo fstab
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:34:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In re: my continued lilo problems ... What does fdisk -l /dev/hda3 say? This: Disk /dev/hda3: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3527 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System The command should have been fdisk -l /dev/hda. The output should be the same as the p command within fdisk, ie.: Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 161489951 83 Linux /dev/hda262 122489982+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 123 3649 28330627+ 83 Linux Do you mean for /dev/hda1 to be the /boot partition? Could there be a 1024 cylinder problem with booting from /dev/hda3? -- Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
