Re: [SOLVED] lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-10-02 Thread briand
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:20:46 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: If I recall correctly, you got farther with this one than you did with the one that had a missing initrd entry. You were able to boot this one with a root file system override, whereas the one with the

Re: [SOLVED] lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 13:54:11 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Right now, it's only a working setup for one kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64. If you're not going to make these changes, you might as well de-install the other kernels. They will not boot, so what good are they?

Re: [SOLVED] lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-10-02 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: There are a couple of ways.  One way is to use the blkid command. For example, blkid /dev/sda2 will return the uuid of /dev/sda2.  The other way is to issue ls -Al /dev/disk/by-uuid/ which will list all the

Re: [SOLVED] lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:19:28 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:09:15 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: You had several unrelated problems. (1) The initial RAM disk specifications were missing from the two boot menu items in /etc/lilo.conf that used the standard

[SOLVED] lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:27:37 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: and. IT WORKS ! Talking to you from a freshly booted machine :-) First time it's booted properly in quite sometime. I'm not really clear on what exactly fixed things, although those missing initrd lines were

Re: [SOLVED] lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-27 Thread briand
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:09:15 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:27:37 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: and. IT WORKS ! Talking to you from a freshly booted machine :-) First time it's booted properly in quite sometime. I'm

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-26 Thread briand
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:28:00 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 03:40:04 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: I'm also going to need to see the output of the following commands: ls -Al /dev/disk/by-id/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 26 18:12

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-26 Thread briand
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:28:00 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: Several problems here. S30initramfs, S50symlink_hook, K30initramfs, and K50symlink_hook, though they will still work, I now consider obsolete. S30initramfs and K30initramfs were made obsolete by newer

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:14:29 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:28:00 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: I'm also going to need to see the output of the following commands: ls -Al /dev/disk/by-id/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 26 18:12

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:29:34 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:28:00 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: Several problems here. S30initramfs, S50symlink_hook, K30initramfs, and K50symlink_hook, though they will still work, I now consider obsolete. S30initramfs and

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-26 Thread briand
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:51:12 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: # Kernel image management overrides # See kernel-img.conf(5) for details do_symlinks = no relative_links = yes do_bootloader = no do_bootfloppy = no do_initrd = yes link_in_boot = yes

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-26 Thread briand
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:01:36 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: I also don't see any zz-lilo hook scripts, which the latest version of lilo would have installed. Reinstall the latest version of lilo. This should also install a file in /etc/initramfs/post-update.d

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-25 Thread briand
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:18:25 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: Before I post all that stuff, let me show you exactly what's happening on boot. I think there is something very strange going on and it may not be lilo. Lin_img0 is : /boot/vmlinuz When I boot using that

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-25 Thread briand
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:17:30 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 9/24/2010 7:42 PM: right now I'm thinking I've got something misconfigured, but what ?? Running lilo manually should fix whatever's going on and it most certainly isn't. Did

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:54:12 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: Stephen Powell put forth on 9/24/2010 4:06 PM: Current stock Debian kernels for the amd64 architecture are right on the ragged edge of being too large for lilo to load below the 16M line And the bulk of these ~16MB stock kernels

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 03:40:04 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Before I post all that stuff, let me show you exactly what's happening on boot. I think there is something very strange going on and it may not be lilo. Lin_img0 is : /boot/vmlinuz When I boot using that entry I get

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-24 Thread David Baron
Try reinstalling your kernel, or if you compiled your own, install a recent linux-image-2.6.32.5 from Sid. The postinstall script will point /etc/fstab and lilo.conf to the newer UUID references and then it should play. The postinstall for home-brew kernels does not do this for you, I'm afraid

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-24 Thread briand
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:57:25 +0200 David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: Try reinstalling your kernel, or if you compiled your own, install a recent linux-image-2.6.32.5 from Sid. The postinstall script will point /etc/fstab and lilo.conf to the newer UUID references and then it should play.

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-24 Thread briand
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:57:25 +0200 David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: Try reinstalling your kernel, or if you compiled your own, install a recent linux-image-2.6.32.5 from Sid. The postinstall script will point /etc/fstab and lilo.conf to the newer UUID references and then it should play.

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:10:53 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: I deleted one of the older images and when it finished I got this mess: Could not find postrm hook script [lilo-update]. Looked in: '/bin', '/sbin', '/usr/bin', '/usr/sbin' Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d . Purging

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-24 Thread briand
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:06:43 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:10:53 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: I deleted one of the older images and when it finished I got this mess: Could not find postrm hook script [lilo-update]. Looked

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:42:56 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: I've run lilo and rebooted multiple times and always get the same result. Interesting. What happens if you specify root=802 as an argument to the boot prompt? right now I'm thinking I've got something misconfigured,

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Stephen Powell put forth on 9/24/2010 4:06 PM: Current stock Debian kernels for the amd64 architecture are right on the ragged edge of being too large for lilo to load below the 16M line And the bulk of these ~16MB stock kernels is the initrd, correct? Wow those are huge. I'm so glad I roll

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 9/24/2010 7:42 PM: right now I'm thinking I've got something misconfigured, but what ?? Running lilo manually should fix whatever's going on and it most certainly isn't. Did you possibly lose your BIOS LBA configuration before the dist-upgrade, and didn't know

lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-23 Thread briand
On boot lilo does not find the root device. I can use root=/dev/sda2 at the lilo boot prompt and it will boot correctly. So clearly it's pointing at the incorrect root device. I've double checked the lilo.conf file and it says: boot=/dev/sda root=/dev/sda2 which is correct. the lilo command

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 9/23/2010 10:50 PM: Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 Device 0x0802: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 30515 cylinders, 63 sectors. Partition offset: 120583890 sectors. Using Volume ID 5879D4A8 on bios 80 Setup length is 27 sectors. Mapped

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-23 Thread briand
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:20:45 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 9/23/2010 10:50 PM: Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 Device 0x0802: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 30515 cylinders, 63 sectors. Partition offset: 120583890

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-23 Thread briand
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:25:56 -0700 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: aaargh. I've never had so much trouble in my entire linux/debian/life. I have had a smooth boot or bootloader upgrade on this computer since I fired it up. other one works good, though. but really, 1/2 _is_ bad. I have NOT had

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 9/23/2010 11:25 PM: No, that's normal. What had you changed on the system immediately prior to this boot problem occurring? apt-get dist-upgrade, natch. WTF is natch? -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 4c9c2ca9.3020...@hardwarefreak.com, Stan Hoeppner wrote: bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 9/23/2010 11:25 PM: No, that's normal. What had you changed on the system immediately prior to this boot problem occurring? apt-get dist-upgrade, natch. WTF is natch? Shortening of naturally, which

lilo config

2005-02-26 Thread messmate
Bonjour, je viens de faire une erreur dans ma lilo.conf. Je me suis gourré entre hda3 et hdb3. je viens de corriger cela avec mon knoppix cd, mais je sais plus comment procéder pour refaire mon mbr avec /sbin/lilo -v étant dans ma knoppix cd ou ma tomsrbt. Merci d'avance pour l'aide. mess-mate

Re: lilo config

2005-02-26 Thread Jean-Michel OLTRA
bonjour, Le samedi 26 février 2005, messmate a écrit... je viens de faire une erreur dans ma lilo.conf. Je me suis gourré entre hda3 et hdb3. je viens de corriger cela avec mon knoppix cd, mais je sais plus comment procéder pour refaire mon mbr avec /sbin/lilo -v étant dans ma

Re: lilo config

2005-02-26 Thread messmate
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:37:45 +0100 Jean-Michel OLTRA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bonjour, Le samedi 26 février 2005, messmate a écrit... je viens de faire une erreur dans ma lilo.conf. Je me suis gourré entre hda3 et hdb3. je viens de corriger cela avec mon knoppix cd, mais je sais plus

Re: lilo config

2005-02-26 Thread messmate
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 13:59:47 +0100 Florent Bayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Samedi 26 Février 2005 13:53, messmate a écrit : On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:37:45 +0100 Jean-Michel OLTRA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bonjour, Le samedi 26 février 2005, messmate a écrit... je viens de faire

Re: lilo config

2005-02-26 Thread Troumad
messmate a écrit : Bonjour, je viens de faire une erreur dans ma lilo.conf. Je me suis gourré entre hda3 et hdb3. je viens de corriger cela avec mon knoppix cd, mais je sais plus comment procéder pour refaire mon mbr avec /sbin/lilo -v étant dans ma knoppix cd ou ma tomsrbt. Merci d'avance pour

Re: lilo config

2005-02-26 Thread Troumad
messmate a écrit : On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:29:19 +0100 Troumad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: messmate a écrit : Bonjour, je viens de faire une erreur dans ma lilo.conf. Je me suis gourré entre hda3 et hdb3. je viens de corriger cela avec mon knoppix cd, mais je sais plus comment procéder pour

Re: lilo config

2005-02-26 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
Le 26.02.2005 17:12:43, Troumad a écrit : messmate a écrit : [ ... ] Si j'avais fait cette faute avec grub cela aurait produit le même effet, non ? Oui, mais facilement corrigeable. Il siffit de modifier le fichier. De plus avec grub, même si le fichier menu.lst est complètement faux, on a

Re: lilo config

2005-02-26 Thread messmate
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:12:43 +0100 Troumad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: messmate a écrit : On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:29:19 +0100 Troumad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: messmate a écrit : Bonjour, je viens de faire une erreur dans ma lilo.conf. Je me suis gourré entre hda3 et hdb3. je viens de

Re: lilo config

2005-02-26 Thread messmate
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:20:15 + Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 26.02.2005 17:12:43, Troumad a écrit : messmate a écrit : [ ... ] Si j'avais fait cette faute avec grub cela aurait produit le même effet, non ? Oui, mais facilement corrigeable. Il siffit de

Re: lilo config

2005-02-26 Thread messmate
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:14:08 + Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 26.02.2005 17:56:26, messmate a écrit : On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:20:15 + Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 26.02.2005 17:12:43, Troumad a écrit : messmate a écrit : [ ... ] Si

Lilo config for a compactflash

2004-01-29 Thread luisa
Hello I have a problem with lilo for a compact flash I have a compach flash that will run on a system(1) as /dev/hdc. It has a patrition /dev/hdc1 with a root linux instalation. But I have to configure this flas on other machine(2) (firt one have no keyboard and can't have) thas only can

Lilo config for a compactflash

2004-01-27 Thread linux
Hello I have a problem with lilo for a compact flash I have a compach flash that will run on a system(1) as /dev/hdc. It has a patrition /dev/hdc1 with a root linux instalation. But I have to configure this flas on other machine(2) (firt one have no keyboard and can't have) thas only can

lilo config

2002-05-13 Thread Slayer Slayerowicz
cze na dev/hde1 siedzi winda XP na dev/hde2 debian bylo ok, lilo skonfigurowane odpalalo oba systemy teraz na dev/hde4 wyladowal nowy redhat, nie instalowalem lilo w mbr zeby mi nic nie zmienial, wybralem opcje zeby wrzucil lilo na dev/hde4, ale kiedy w lilo.config wrzuce zeby odpalal system z

Re: lilo config

2002-05-13 Thread Marek Wysmulek
... odpalal system z dev/hde4 to boot=tam_gdzie_jest_vmlinuz root=tam_gdzie_jest_katalog_root Marek Wysmulek. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lilo config

2002-05-13 Thread Mirek Grochowski
On 13 May 2002, Slayer Slayerowicz wrote: cze na dev/hde1 siedzi winda XP na dev/hde2 debian w tej chwili lilo.conf wyglada tak: (...) default=2.4.18 image=/boot/bzImage2418 label=2.4.18 read-only root=/dev/hde2 other=/dev/hde1 label=XP i moge

A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Javier Sieben
Hello I'm a newbie and need to know how can I make a lilo item menu that loads the kernel and don't execute xdm (for use the text console)? Regards, Javier

Re: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 02 December 2000 15:21, Javier Sieben wrote: Hello I'm a newbie and need to know how can I make a lilo item menu that loads the kernel and don't execute xdm (for use the text console)? This is not a lilo issue. xdm is being started by the rc.d scripts. You can stop xdm from any

RE: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Javier Sieben
-Mensaje original- De: Bud Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Fecha: Sábado, 02 de Diciembre de 2000 06:38 p.m. Asunto: Re: A lilo config question On Saturday 02 December 2000 15:21, Javier Sieben wrote: Hello I'm a newbie and need to know how can

Re: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Erik Steffl
1) you can also create a lilo entry that will boot debian into a run level that does not start xdm. 2) you can also specify run level at lilo prompt during boot 3) the other option is to change default run level to a run level that does not start xdm, see /etc/nittab and look for lines

RE: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Javier Sieben
-Mensaje original- De: Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Fecha: Sábado, 02 de Diciembre de 2000 07:01 p.m. Asunto: Re: A lilo config question 1) you can also create a lilo entry that will boot debian into a run level that does not start xdm

Re: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Javier Sieben wrote: -Mensaje original- De: Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Fecha: Sábado, 02 de Diciembre de 2000 07:01 p.m. Asunto: Re: A lilo config question 1) you can also create a lilo entry that will boot debian into a run

RE: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Javier Sieben
-Mensaje original- De: Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Para: Javier Sieben [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Sábado, 02 de Diciembre de 2000 06:23 p.m. Asunto: Re: A lilo config question Javier Sieben wrote: Hello I'm a newbie and need to know how can I make a lilo item menu that loads

RE: A lilo config question

2000-12-02 Thread Javier Sieben
-Mensaje original- De: Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Fecha: Sábado, 02 de Diciembre de 2000 07:23 p.m. Asunto: Re: A lilo config question Javier Sieben wrote: Is much easier in this form. Thanks, Erik. Javier

Lilo Config

2000-01-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm planning on reinstalling Debian on my system today (I kind of messed a lot of stuff up, I could fix it, but I decided I'd rather just reinstall). In the past, I've always just booted Debian off of a floppy, but this time I want to use LILO to boot Debian or Win95 depending on what I

Re: Lilo Config

2000-01-17 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
In the past, I've always just booted Debian off of a floppy, but this time I want to use LILO to boot Debian or Win95 depending on what I want. If I want to use LILO, do I just choose 'Make bootable form hard disk' at the last step of Debian 2.1 Slink, or do I have to do something else.

lilo config

1999-01-22 Thread Thomas MANGIN
As far as I noticed I didn t see any to to config lilo with a windows partition. I done it by hand few month ago but I needed and initrd file If I am right. On my actual installation which is lighter I don t get it any more. What can i do !! Thomas -- Today's thinking : I'am not able to think

Re: lilo config

1999-01-22 Thread Andrew Ivanov
As far as I noticed I didn t see any to to config lilo with a windows partition. I done it by hand few month ago but I needed and initrd file If I am right. On my actual installation which is lighter I don t get it any more. What can i do !! Thomas Say again? It's kind of hard to

Re: lilo config

1999-01-22 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 12:51:30PM +0100, Thomas MANGIN wrote: As far as I noticed I didn t see any to to config lilo with a windows partition. I done it by hand few month ago but I needed and initrd file If I am right. On my actual installation which is lighter I don t get it any more. What

LILO config for FreeBSD and Debian....

1998-03-24 Thread Gary Kline
Hi, Hopefully some lilo or configuration wizard will be able to answer this. I posed this question--or its parallel--some weeks ago, but this was before I had FreeBSD installed. Now I've got Debian an FreeBSD installed on my 6x86 box, so I'm ready. There are 3 SCSI drives.

LILO config at Install

1998-01-23 Thread John Spence
I've just guided a friend through an installation of Debian over the phone. He had a hard time getting LILO to install to the MBR of the first HDD. He has Win95 on the first IDE and was installing Linux on the second. It's hard to tell over the phone with a first time linux user if they are