[Grml] Fwd: Rerunning lilo

[Steffen Liebergeld]

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> Von: "Scott Ford" <w8sef at sbcglobal.net>
> Datum: 23. September 2006 04:46:29 MESZ
> An: "'Steffen Liebergeld'" <stepardo at gmail.com>
> Betreff: Rerunning lilo
>
> Hi everyone,
> 	I am new to the list and Linux.  I installed GRML on my Toshiba a55.
> I am blind and I was able to resize my hard drive, and install the  
> grml to
> the hard drive with no problem.  This is what I had partitioned my  
> hard
> drive to, hda1 26G, hda2 2g fat32, hda3 1G Linux swap, and hda4 Linux.
> Thank you guys for setting up such an awesome distribution.  I have  
> been
> looking for this for a long time.   I have been reading and  
> learning .  I
> figured that I would reconfigure my hard rive so that I had an  
> extended
> partition.  This is what I changed it to hda1 26G ntfs, hda2 1G  
> Linux swap,
> hda33G Linux, hda4 extended, hda5 fat16 5G, and hda6 4G Linux.  I  
> reran the
> grml2hd script, it went well, it said that lilo ran successfully.   
> However
> it did not.  So I mounted hda3 the Linux partition, and copied the
> /mnt/hda3/etc/lilo.conf to the /etc/lilo.conf.  I then ran /sbin/ 
> lilo It
> failed saying that /dev/hda3 is not set to be active.  I then  
> discovered
> that the line /device/hda3 was in the place where /dev/had been in my
> original configuration.  I attempted to change it to /dev/had.  I  
> tried to
> rerun lilo again, it failed attempting to map to unmapped device  
> oxoee or
> something.  I am sorry I did not write exactly what it said down.  
> However I
> believe that you guys probably are familiar with what is  
> happening.  I do
> not have a clue though.  I cannot seem to find any thing on what is
> happening on the net either.  Thank you guys in advanced.
> Scott
>
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mfg, Steffen Liebergeld

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