Subject: Re: LILO PROBLEMS [FIXED}
From: Adam Elkins (i-robot@gci.net)
Date: Thu Jan 02 2003 - 22:37:25 AKST
I fixed it. I'm not sure why it fixed it, but it did....
I added 'lba32' as the error suggested....ran 'lilo'
Did work, but it didn't complain as much.
So, for some reason, I thought to edit it agin. All I did was take out all the
commented things (Everything with # in front).
and changed the lables DOS to XP and LINUX to Slackware.
Ran lilo. Worked. Reboot sucessful...go figure.
Adam
On Thursday 02 January 2003 10:14 pm, Mike Mintz wrote:
> In your earlier posts, you said lilo points to /dev/hda... Were the elipses
> (...'s) implying there was more, like a number, or were you just using it
> as punctuation? I have my lilo.conf boot= set to /dev/hda with no partition
> number (for my MBR), and I set my active partition to my extended partition
> that contains my linux, and I have a bootable flag on my linux logical
> partition (I'm not sure how much of this is actually necessary but it
> works).
>
> Another thing you can try is installing the mbr file with lilo -M I think.
>
> But your error "cannot install lilo into a logical partition" suggests that
> whatever your boot= is going to is not a primary partition, and you'd need
> to change that.
>
> - Mike Mintz
>
> On Thursday 02 January 2003 10:09 pm, Adam Elkins wrote:
> > LILO has decided to become LI
> > It sticks there when booting. Luckly, I had a bootdisk, so I booted and
> > used the backup copy of lilo.conf I had, but when I do "lilo -v"
> > It complains and does nothing
> > (complaints can be found in LILO Splash posts)
> >
> > Is there a way to force lilo to run (re-install?)
> >
> > If not, I hd this idea....
> >
> > Run the Slack install. but don't format anything, and don't install
> > anything, it would basicly just end up installing LILO to the MBR....
> >
> > Will that work? I've put ALOT into this , and I don't feel like using a
> > boot disk every time.
> >
> > Adam
> >
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