Re: 2.6 kernel install, lilo problems in sarge (?)

2004-04-05 Thread Andrés Roldán
The real problem is that your lilo.conf file makes reference to an /initrd.img file which may not exist. The warning can be skipped and means that your kernel was compiled with DEVFS_FS support and you are not using it. -- Andrés Roldán [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key-ID: 0xB29396EB

2.6 kernel install, lilo problems in sarge (?)

2004-04-04 Thread Michael Bonert
I'm having some probs with lilo: # dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.4_cobalamin.1.0_i386.deb# install of a custom kernel === {SNIP} You already have a LILO configuration in /etc/lilo.conf Install a boot block using the existing /etc/lilo.conf? [Yes] yes Testing

Re: 2.6 kernel install, lilo problems in sarge (?)

2004-04-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Michael Bonert wrote: I'm having some probs with lilo: # dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.4_cobalamin.1.0_i386.deb# install of a custom kernel === {SNIP} You already have a LILO configuration in /etc/lilo.conf Install a boot block using the existing /etc/lilo.conf?

Re: Grub/Lilo problems

2004-02-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
Roscoe Joao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's a catch, anyway: knoppix gives you a complete RAM based working environment, so you must to sure that you're working in the real HD filesytem (find the right partition, mount it read/write, and maybe, chroot to it) to make all this work. Mount it

Grub/Lilo problems

2004-02-03 Thread paulsmith20378
I know this isn't a knoppix list, but it's debian based, and I'm not having much luck at other places. Hope you can help :) I made a new computer (yay), and proceeded install the Fedora Core. After playing with it for a little while, I thought No, I don't think so, and did a hard disk install

Re: Grub/Lilo problems

2004-02-03 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 10:00:31AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also tried uninstalling grub using dselect. I assume that the grub that I uninstalled was a debian grub, not the one that is booting my system. Hi, Paul. The bootstrappers are managed unlike the rest of the system. Simple

Re: Grub/Lilo problems

2004-02-03 Thread Roscoe Joao
I'm still kind of newbie, so, please, be careful about by tips, but maybe this will help: Grub and lilo are alike in the sense that both (can) install code to the Master Boot Record to (be loaded by the bios at startup and) automate the boot process. Such boot code would not be affected by

sarge make-kpkg lilo problems

2003-09-27 Thread gsnyder
Hi all.I haven't had problems before on other machines with make-kpkg. Just used it to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.22 on a machine at work, and have had a horrible time. I get the message: fsck ext3 No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hdb2 which is my root directory. Then

LILO problems,no boot, can I use Knoppix rescue to fix?

2003-09-26 Thread J F
Subject: LILO problems, no boot, can I use Knoppix rescue to fix? Repost with modifications, first few tries did make it to the debian user list. Maybe an overzealous spam filter again: I did an aptitude and did an update, and a few g keystrokes to download and install. Aptitude said something

Re: LILO problems,no boot, can I use Knoppix rescue to fix?

2003-09-26 Thread J F
FIxed. I pressed the ALT key to go to boot from linux.old selection in the lilo boot menu. Then went in and downloaded a new kernel (for Athlon K7) and matching modules. Sorry, if you see my original posting several times, it is taking a full day to see my posting show up?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: LILO problems,no boot, can I use Knoppix rescue to fix?

2003-09-26 Thread Erik Steffl
J F wrote: Repost with modifications, first one did make it to the list: I did an aptitude and did an update, and a few g keystrokes to download and install. Aptitude said something like: Warning, it was deleting modules for old version of kernel. Now the system won't reboot. THe screen says:

Re: LILO problems,no boot, can I use Knoppix rescue to fix?

2003-09-26 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:02:02PM -0400, J F wrote: Any way, I can reboot using the Knoppix CD as a rescue disk and then edit /mnt/hda1/etc/lilo.conf . But when I run lilo, it says: # sudo su # lilo -C /mnt/hda1/etc/lilo.conf Fatal. Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xf000 How

LILO problems,no boot, can I use Knoppix rescue to fix?

2003-09-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
I am doing this from memory, so I stand to be corrected. But... You must chroot to the root directory that has the problem and the /etc with lilo.conf. Lilo does that with the -r option: so try lilo -r /mnt/hda1 Regards, Hugo __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo!

Re: LILO problems,no boot, can I use Knoppix rescue to fix?

2003-09-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* J F [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030924 21:53]: But when I run lilo, it says: # sudo su # lilo -C /mnt/hda1/etc/lilo.conf Fatal. Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xf000 How can I use Knoppix to fix LILO boot? I don't know, if this will fix your problem, but you might try to use chroot

LILO problems,no boot, can I use Knoppix rescue to fix?

2003-09-25 Thread J F
Repost with modifications, first one did make it to the list: I did an aptitude and did an update, and a few g keystrokes to download and install. Aptitude said something like: Warning, it was deleting modules for old version of kernel. Now the system won't reboot. THe screen says: LILO

LILO problems,no boot, can I use Knoppix rescue to fix?

2003-09-25 Thread J F
Repost with modifications, first few tries did make it to the debian user list. Maybe an overzealous spam filter again: I did an aptitude and did an update, and a few g keystrokes to download and install. Aptitude said something like: Warning, it was deleting modules for old version of kernel.

LILO problems,no boot

2003-09-24 Thread J F
I did an aptitude and did an update, and a few g keystrokes to download and install. It said: warning, it was deleted modules for old version of kernel. Now the system won't reboot. This is from a Knoppix CD install. Any way, I can reboot using the Knoppix CD and edit /mnt/hda1/etc/lilo.conf .

Lilo Problems

2003-08-14 Thread Jefferson Cowart
I've installed a new server (woody 3.0r1 + proposed updates + security updates) on a system that is running with root on sda3. Lilo seems to be having problems as on boot it outputs and L followed by 01 01 01 and on and on. i.e. L 01 01 01 01... Any clues what the problem is? I'm able to get in

Re: Lilo Problems

2003-08-14 Thread cr
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 19:23, Jefferson Cowart wrote: I've installed a new server (woody 3.0r1 + proposed updates + security updates) on a system that is running with root on sda3. Lilo seems to be having problems as on boot it outputs and L followed by 01 01 01 and on and on. i.e. L 01

RE: Lilo Problems

2003-08-14 Thread Jefferson Cowart
Thanks for the help everyone. I ended up getting the answer from the LILO developer. His answer is below. The problem stems from the fact that the version of LILO in stable can't handle the bios booting from a disk other than the first one, without telling lilo what the bios boot order is. In my

Re: Lilo Problems

2003-08-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030806 02:48]: On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:23:24AM -0700, Jefferson Cowart wrote: Please CC me on any responses as I'm not subscribed to this list. http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/mail-responses.html Either set Mail-Followup-To: yourself or don't

Re: Lilo Problems

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:23:24AM -0700, Jefferson Cowart wrote: I've installed a new server (woody 3.0r1 + proposed updates + security updates) on a system that is running with root on sda3. Lilo seems to be having problems as on boot it outputs

RE: Lilo Problems

2003-08-14 Thread Jefferson Cowart
West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 05:19 To: Jefferson Cowart Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lilo Problems Jefferson Cowart wrote: I've installed a new server (woody 3.0r1 + proposed updates + security updates) on a system that is running with root

Re: Lilo Problems

2003-08-11 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: Sorry I mis-typed the rescue line. My root is /dev/sda3 and I type rescure root=/dev/sda3. Below is my lilo.conf file with comments removed. In addition I've included my /etc/fstab file and the output of df -h to show my /boot partition is small and at the

Re: Lilo Problems OT

2003-08-08 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Wed, August 06 at 2:46 AM EDT Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please CC me on any responses as I'm not subscribed to this list. http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/mail-responses.html Either set Mail-Followup-To: yourself or don't request it. Paul - for future reference - what if

Re: Lilo Problems OT

2003-08-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:11:31AM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: Paul - for future reference - what if one requests CC's because it sometimes takes hours (12 or more) for one to see posts on the lists due to listserv (or whatever handles this) being

Re: Help! Lilo Problems with NT and Debian Linux

2002-06-04 Thread prover
AM Subject: Re: Help! Lilo Problems with NT and Debian Linux Am Montag, 3. Juni 2002 17:50 schrieb Sebastian Canagaratna: Any suggestion for safely recovering so that I can boot up into WIndows, and also chose linux from the menu rather than always use a floppy to boot into linux

Re: Help! Lilo Problems with NT and Debian Linux

2002-06-04 Thread gerhard
Am Dienstag, 4. Juni 2002 19:13 schrieb prover: I'M NOT MEMER OF YOUR MAILING LISTS. WHY THIS MAILS COME TO ME? EVERY DAY COME TO ME 200 MAILS FROM YOUR MAILING LISTS. CAN YOU DO SOMETHING WITH IT? THANK YOU. Hi Thomas, Didn't you read the Answer to an earlier message of you? You

Help! Lilo Problems with NT and Debian Linux

2002-06-03 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I am running sid and kernel 2.4.8. I had copied /bootsect.lnx into c:\ so that I would be given a choice to boot into NT or linux. After I installed kernel 2.4.8 and I chose linux, I would get LI and the machine would hang up. So whenever I used to linux I had to boot from a floppy

Re: Help! Lilo Problems with NT and Debian Linux

2002-06-03 Thread gerhard
Am Montag, 3. Juni 2002 17:50 schrieb Sebastian Canagaratna: Any suggestion for safely recovering so that I can boot up into WIndows, and also chose linux from the menu rather than always use a floppy to boot into linux? Hello, I think you can use M$ fdisk /mbr to reinstall the

lilo problems

2002-02-16 Thread Peter McConnell
As a new debian User ie 48 hours I am having trouble with the configuration of lilo. I installed a 2.2r3 version of debian and imediately down loaded the 2.4.16 binary. The configuration tool said I am going to add a new block for your to lilo but you will have to add initrd=/initrd to lilo.conf

Re: lilo problems

2002-02-16 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 14:51, Peter McConnell wrote: As a new debian User ie 48 hours I am having trouble with the configuration of lilo. I installed a 2.2r3 version of debian and imediately down loaded the 2.4.16 binary. You can't run that kernel without significant upgrades to some other

Re: lilo problems

2002-02-16 Thread Peter McConnell
Greg C. Madden wrote: On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 14:51, Peter McConnell wrote: As a new debian User ie 48 hours I am having trouble with the configuration of lilo. I installed a 2.2r3 version of debian and imediately down loaded the 2.4.16 binary. You can't run that kernel without

Re: lilo problems

2002-02-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 06:51:23PM -0500, Peter McConnell wrote: As a new debian User ie 48 hours I am having trouble with the configuration of lilo. I installed a 2.2r3 version of debian and imediately down loaded the 2.4.16 binary. The configuration tool said I am going to add a new

LILO problems

2001-07-30 Thread JakeCatfox
I'm trying to configure LILO to allow me to boot from my FAT partition (Windows 98) and my Linux partition, but for some reason the only thing it'll boot from is Linux. If I try to run a boot loader from DOS to configure it, the only partition it'll find is the Windows one. Does anyone know

Re: LILO problems

2001-07-30 Thread Jason Majors
Put an entry like this: # Boot Win98 other=/dev/sda2 label=dos(2) alias=2 You also need entries for prompt, and delay (and I'd suggest timeout and single-key). prompt # Needed so you can choose what to boot. single-key # Allows you to use number aliases without hitting enter. delay=100 #

Re: LILO problems

2001-07-30 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to configure LILO to allow me to boot from my FAT partition (Windows 98) and my Linux partition, but for some reason the only thing it'll boot from is Linux. If I try to run a boot loader from DOS to configure it, the only partition it'll find is the

Re: LILO problems

2001-07-30 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:03:59PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to configure LILO to allow me to boot from my FAT partition (Windows 98) and my Linux partition, but for some reason the only thing it'll boot from is Linux. If I try to run a boot loader from DOS to configure it,

Re: LILO problems

2001-07-30 Thread Kent West
Sam Varghese wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:03:59PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to configure LILO to allow me to boot from my FAT partition (Windows 98) and my Linux partition, but for some reason the only thing it'll boot from is Linux. If I try to run a boot loader from

Re: LILO problems

2001-07-30 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Sam Varghese wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:03:59PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to configure LILO to allow me to boot from my FAT partition (Windows 98) and my Linux partition, but for some reason the only thing it'll boot from is Linux. If I try to run a

Re: lilo problems

2001-07-24 Thread harshu
hi, are you sure that lilo is installed? lilo.conf is in /etc dpkg -l | grep lilo. on my system this is the output. ii lilo 21.7.5-5 LInux LOader - The Classic OS loader can loa if you don't get anything similar the run apt-get install lilo. hope that helps

Re: lilo problems

2001-07-24 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Dan Ryan wrote: I am completely new to debian and linux for that matter and I was just installing it on one of my other computers. Now I want to make it a dual boot system. The only problem is I can't use X because I dont have a supported video card. So... how do I edit lilo.conf from the

lilo problems

2001-07-23 Thread Dan Ryan
I am completely new to debian and linux for that matter and I was just installing it on one of my other computers. Now I want to make it a dual boot system. The only problem isI can't use X because I dont have a supported video card. So... how do I edit lilo.conf from the starting command prompt?

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

2001-02-24 Thread Stan Brown
On Sat Feb 24 00:06:54 2001 David Raeker-Jordan wrote... This seems to have been done by the installer. I booted from the floppy, looked at /etc/lilo.conf (which had all teh correct setings for my confg as dar as I can tell), and ran lilo just on general principles.

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

2001-02-24 Thread Stan Brown
On Fri Feb 23 23:48:07 2001 Lute Mullenix wrote... On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:34:24PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: This seems to have been done by the installer. I booted from the floppy, looked at /etc/lilo.conf (which had all the correct settings for my config as dar as I

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

2001-02-24 Thread Stan Brown
On Fri Feb 23 22:33:51 2001 ktb wrote... If I try to boot from the hard didk, I get the following: L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 and it continures till i hit the power swithc. More sugestions? Post the output of - # rdev and your /etc/lilo.conf Any error messages

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

2001-02-24 Thread Stan Brown
On Fri Feb 23 22:33:51 2001 ktb wrote... If I try to boot from the hard didk, I get the following: L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 and it continures till i hit the power swithc. More sugestions? Post the output of - # rdev and your /etc/lilo.conf Any error messages

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

2001-02-24 Thread ktb
On Fri Feb 23 22:33:51 2001 ktb wrote... Post the output of - # rdev and your /etc/lilo.conf Any error messages when you run /sbin/lilo? kent On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 10:00:36AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: Script started on Sat Feb 24 05:58:00 2001 debian_test:~# rdev /dev/hda3 /

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

2001-02-24 Thread Stan Brown
On Sat Feb 24 11:53:25 2001 ktb wrote... OK I don't know if this will work but lets clean this up a bit and try a couple things. First comment out the lines for the image=/vmlinuz.old section and comment out lba32 and run /sbin/lilo, post any error messages. Have you tried upgrading your bios

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

2001-02-24 Thread Robert Waldner
(quoting modified for readability) On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:59:52 EST, Stan Brown writes: Now on to the good new. I made the changes to /etc/lilo.conf you sugested, and reran /sbin/lilo (no errors). Then I rebooted. I now ger LI and the system hangs there. I have tried this both with LBA on, and off

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

2001-02-24 Thread ktb
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 12:59:52PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: On Sat Feb 24 11:53:25 2001 ktb wrote... OK I don't know if this will work but lets clean this up a bit and try a couple things. First comment out the lines for the image=/vmlinuz.old section and comment out lba32 and run

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

2001-02-24 Thread Stan Brown
On Sat Feb 24 13:11:40 2001 Robert Waldner wrote... (quoting modified for readability) On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:59:52 EST, Stan Brown writes: Now on to the good new. I made the changes to /etc/lilo.conf you sugested, and reran /sbin/lilo (no errors). Then I rebooted. I now ger LI and the system

Install (LILO ?) problems!

2001-02-23 Thread Stan Brown
I am trying to install stable On an HP Vectra P200, with a 20G IDE disk. All of the install goes well, untill I reboot. Then, I get a continuois stream of 40 ;s streaming across teh screen while the hard disk ling _and_ the floppy light flash! I can boot from the boot floppy OK. I set up a

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

2001-02-23 Thread ktb
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 05:42:13PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: I am trying to install stable On an HP Vectra P200, with a 20G IDE disk. All of the install goes well, untill I reboot. Then, I get a continuois stream of 40 ;s streaming across teh screen while the hard disk ling _and_ the floppy

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

2001-02-23 Thread Hall Stevenson
I am trying to install stable On an HP Vectra P200, with a 20G IDE disk. snip BTW, the BIOS thinks this is onl an 8G disk, which may be part of the problem? You might be able to upgrade your bios in order to see all 20G's. And if there's no BIOS upgrade available, I *think* you can

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

2001-02-23 Thread Stan Brown
On Fri Feb 23 18:57:36 2001 ktb wrote... On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 05:42:13PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: I am trying to install stable On an HP Vectra P200, with a 20G IDE disk. All of the install goes well, untill I reboot. Then, I get a continuois stream of 40 ;s streaming across teh screen

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

2001-02-23 Thread ktb
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:34:24PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: On Fri Feb 23 18:57:36 2001 ktb wrote... On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 05:42:13PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: I am trying to install stable On an HP Vectra P200, with a 20G IDE disk. All of the install goes well, untill I reboot. Then,

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

2001-02-23 Thread Lute Mullenix
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:34:24PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: This seems to have been done by the installer. I booted from the floppy, looked at /etc/lilo.conf (which had all the correct settings for my config as dar as I can tell), and ran lilo just on general principles.

Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!

2001-02-23 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
This seems to have been done by the installer. I booted from the floppy, looked at /etc/lilo.conf (which had all teh correct setings for my confg as dar as I can tell), and ran lilo just on general principles. I alos watched the boot messages, and went back and

Re: Lilo problems after a debian installation...

2001-02-08 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
luck Hall - Original Message - From: Rogelio E. Castillo Haro,,, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 1:49 PM Subject: Re: Lilo problems after a debian installation... I have not the PC on network, but I think that the matter

Re: Lilo problems after a debian installation...

2001-02-08 Thread Hall Stevenson
I thought it was odd that you had Windows on the secondary controller. I didn't think it would work that way, but assumed it was already. I thought you made some changes to lilo and then it stopped working... Oh well, it's working now so that's all that matters ! Hall thanks lot for your

Lilo problems after a debian installation...

2001-02-07 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro,,,
Hi, I've two disks Primary master (hda) with Debian, just installed las weekend Secondary master (hdc) with Win98 already installed and working...(sic) Well I install Debian on my primary disk and tell lilo to install at the MBR (unsafe I know) Now when I select to boot win98 it appears:

Re: Lilo problems after a debian installation...

2001-02-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
Primary master (hda) with Debian, just installed las weekend Secondary master (hdc) with Win98 already installed and working...(sic) Well I install Debian on my primary disk and tell lilo to install at the MBR (unsafe I know) Now when I select to boot win98 it appears: Loading win L? And

lilo problems

2001-02-06 Thread Chris Matta
I upgraded to sid a month or so ago, and i remember it asked me something about lilo, and replacing it with the debian boot loader, i said yes, but now after i compiled a new kernel, and ran lilo i get : LI i know that means a geometry missmatch etc... but what i wanna know is which

Re: LILO problems . . .

2000-08-29 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 08:18:43PM -0500, luke b wrote: I am having problems with lilo. When my computer boots, I have no opportunity to type my other kernel labels. It just says LILO, and I am unable to type anything. Lilo is in my MBR. Please help . . . Does it say prompt timeout=20

Re: LILO problems . . .

2000-08-29 Thread luke b
i got it working. i just had to turn on the welcome message and an alias, and it started working like i'm used to . . . luke From: Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: luke b [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: LILO problems . . . Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 22:55:14 -0500 Hi

LILO problems . . .

2000-08-28 Thread luke b
I am having problems with lilo. When my computer boots, I have no opportunity to type my other kernel labels. It just says LILO, and I am unable to type anything. Lilo is in my MBR. Please help . . . _ Get Your Private,

Re: LILO problems . . .

2000-08-28 Thread Ray Percival
You need to edit /etc/lilo.conf the default file has really good comments just read them and do the right thing. -- Original Message -- From: luke b [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:18:43 CDT I am having problems with lilo. When my computer

[emessen@hotmail.com: LILO problems . . .]

2000-08-28 Thread William Jensen
-Originating-IP: [206.146.40.218] From: luke b [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: LILO problems . . . Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:18:43 CDT X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Aug 2000 01:18:43.0370 (UTC) FILETIME=[125410A0:01C01157] Resent-Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From

Re: LILO problems . . .

2000-08-28 Thread Dean
Hi Luke: You did try to hit the shift key as soon as you saw lilo? That should pause lilo, then you can hit tab and that will show all choices loaded in lilo.conf hth Dean luke b wrote: I am having problems with lilo. When my computer boots, I have no opportunity to type my other

Re: LILO problems with new HD

1999-07-27 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Jon Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: with that. Can a system boot up without a map file? It seems like it can. Yes, you experienced it :-) But like your problem, I always thought you needed the map file. I know my Only if you want more informative error messages in case of a kernel

Re: LILO problems with new HD

1999-07-27 Thread Jon Keating
You were referring to System.map for the error messages, not the /boot/map file used to load the system.

LILO problems with new HD

1999-07-26 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hello, I've recently discovered problems with the drive that had the /boot and /home partitions of my Debian box, so I decided to go out and get a new HD in transferring the files, I simply copied /boot/* and /home/* to the new drive, and ran lilo on it. It gave me the message that lilo

Re: LILO problems with new HD

1999-07-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: LILO problems with new HD Date: Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 09:48:08PM -0700 In reply to:Lev Lvovsky Quoting Lev Lvovsky([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, I've recently discovered problems with the drive that had the /boot and /home partitions of my Debian box, so I decided

Re: LILO problems with new HD

1999-07-26 Thread Lev Lvovsky
I've recently discovered problems with the drive that had the /boot and /home partitions of my Debian box, so I decided to go out and get a new HD in transferring the files, I simply copied /boot/* and /home/* to the new drive, and ran lilo on it. It gave me the message that lilo

Re: LILO problems with new HD

1999-07-26 Thread Jon Keating
I don't know if we have similiar problems or not. With my system it can't find the map file, but it still boots up, so I'm not sure what the deal is with that. Can a system boot up without a map file? It seems like it can. But like your problem, I always thought you needed the map file. I know

Re: LILO problems with new HD

1999-07-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: LILO problems with new HD Date: Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 01:21:46AM -0700 In reply to:Lev Lvovsky Quoting Lev Lvovsky([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hehe, sorry, I post under the assumption that ppl's balls are in working order ;-D. /boot is hda1...there are three partitions

Re: LILO problems with new HD

1999-07-26 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Ok I guess I have to spend more time to ask specific questions.. sigh You said I simply copied /boot/* and /home/* to the new drive, and ran lilo on it. You didn't say if you updated the /etc/fstab file. yes, /boot, /home, and the swap partition are updated to reside on the new

Re: lilo problems

1999-05-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
tf wrote: hey all I just expanded the 2.2.6 kernal into /usr/src. I have only the base system installed, but am getting debs and throwing them into a windows directory. among them was make. so I got to the make menuconfig step and I got an error (sorry can't remember

lilo problems

1999-05-02 Thread tf
hey all I just expanded the 2.2.6 kernal into /usr/src. I have only the base system installed, but am getting debs and throwing them into a windows directory. among them was make. so I got to the make menuconfig step and I got an error (sorry can't remember which one). I thought I'd find

lilo problems

1999-02-21 Thread Christopher Fury
I've had debian 2.0 running on my machine for a while now, but I finally decided it was time to load up windows so I could play some games. :) I went out and bought a new hard drive, and I want to boot windows off of it. I've tried several lilo configurations, but I can't seem to make my

Re: lilo problems

1999-02-21 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 02:06:50PM -0500, Christopher Fury wrote: I've had debian 2.0 running on my machine for a while now, but I finally decided it was time to load up windows so I could play some games. :) I went out and bought a new hard drive, and I want to boot windows off of it.

Re: lilo problems

1999-02-21 Thread Andrei Ivanov
If 2 drives are swaped, /etc/fstab will also need to be changed to reflect changes in system. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354

Re: LILO Problems, Groan

1999-02-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Aug 21, 1997 at 10:44:08PM -0700, Mike Schmitz wrote: make the boot line in /etc/lilo.conf read boot=/dev/hda - or sda for SCSI and run lilo Urgh. That's the wrong solution. It is unnecessary in 95% of cases to put LILO in the MBR, and it just makes things more confusing later if

Re: LILO Problems, Groan

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 22, Paul Lange wrote Joy. I've installed Debian 1.3.1 fresh on a 486/66 with ~4 megs of ram. This machine is to be a router for home, but right after the install when I'm to reboot and see how my system goes, I get this as an error message when LILO won't load: 3FA: Yup.

RE: LILO Problems...

1999-01-27 Thread Harrison, Shawn
ext /dev/sda1 == New SCSI Disk, Linux filesystem, bootable /dev/hda1 == Old 9GB Disk, hda1 currently holds old copy of filesystem. /dev/hda2 == Windoze partition on old disk, bootable. I included my lilo.conf below. I'm sure that I'm either doing something dumb, or just not considering an

Re: LILO Problems...

1999-01-27 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 12:03:40PM -0600, Harrison, Shawn wrote: ext /dev/sda1 == New SCSI Disk, Linux filesystem, bootable /dev/hda1 == Old 9GB Disk, hda1 currently holds old copy of filesystem. /dev/hda2 == Windoze partition on old disk, bootable. I included my lilo.conf below. I'm sure

LILO Problems...

1999-01-26 Thread Steve Beitzel
Hi all, I recently switched my filesystem over to a SCSI Hard Drive, and now I want to use my old 9GB Drive for storage and for holding a small Windows partition. After I set this up in lilo.conf and tried to boot to Windows, my machine hung right at the message Loading Windows. I have

LILO-problems

1999-01-17 Thread Patrik Magnusson
I have compiled a new kernel, I run make zdisk to make a boot-disk and that works just fine. But I can't make my hard-drive boot-able. When init is about to start I get an oops, 'unable to handle kernel paging request...'. I have also tried make-kpkg but I get the same error. lilo.conf points to

Re: LILO problems with NT OS loader

1997-11-18 Thread Daniel Mashao
-- interzone:/etc# /sbin/lilo Warning: /dev/hdd is not on the first disk Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible I struggled thru this myself recently. I finally had lilo booting NT. My

Re: LILO problems with NT OS loader

1997-11-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Nov 17, 1997 at 11:23:19AM -0700, Robert Goodwin wrote: I'm having a bit of a problem getting my OS loader to boot Linux using LILO. I downloaded some instructions from www.windows-nt.com/multiboot on this but they aren't working correctly although it seems like they should. what

LILO problems with NT OS loader

1997-11-17 Thread Robert Goodwin
Hi there, I'm having a bit of a problem getting my OS loader to boot Linux using LILO. I downloaded some instructions from www.windows-nt.com/multiboot on this but they aren't working correctly although it seems like they should. what I've done is first installed LILO in the superblock of my

LILO Problems, Groan

1997-08-22 Thread Paul Lange
Joy. I've installed Debian 1.3.1 fresh on a 486/66 with ~4 megs of ram. This machine is to be a router for home, but right after the install when I'm to reboot and see how my system goes, I get this as an error message when LILO won't load: 3FA: Yup. That's it. That on a line.

Re: LILO Problems, Groan

1997-08-22 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 22, Paul Lange wrote Joy. I've installed Debian 1.3.1 fresh on a 486/66 with ~4 megs of ram. This machine is to be a router for home, but right after the install when I'm to reboot and see how my system goes, I get this as an error message when LILO won't load: 3FA: Yup.