[Grml] Rerunning lilo

[Michael Prokop]

* Scott Ford <w8sef at sbcglobal.net> [20060923 15:49]:

> 	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.

I'm not *really* sure what's going on because it's very hard to read
your text. Using newlines to separate some sentences would simplify
it. But let me guess what might be your problem:

Looks like you installed lilo into the partition where you did
install grml into, instead of installing lilo into MBR of your
harddisk.

Make sure the line containing boot= in /etc/lilo.conf is correct
(AFAICS you need /dev/hda for it) and rerun lilo then. Make sure
/proc and /sys are mounted if you are running lilo in a chroot
environment.

If that does not work please show your lilo.conf (just attach it to
your mail) and the commands you are using to fix your setup.

regards,
-mika-
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