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Posted: June 20 2005,16:48 QUOTE

Ok so I've been booting off of the DSL CD for a while with the "dsl dma" command, without which, I can't access my hard drive.  I have since done a hd-install which seemed to work ok, but after the hd install when it boots it has a kernel panic... which I'm almost certain is because it isn't in dma mode anymore... so I'm pretty sure I have to add "dma" to the append string in my lilo.conf file.
- So I boot with the cd (using "dsl dma"),
- mount /dev/hda1
- add "dma" to the append line of /mnt/hda1/etc/lilo.conf

which brings me to the run lilo "or your computer may never boot again" step... which I just can't seem to get to work...

the first time I tried to run it it said there was something wrong in the lilo.conf file on line 6 (which I hadn't changed)
so I think it was using the lilo.conf from the cd instead of the hdd.

so I do lilo -C /mnt/hda1/etc/lilo.conf (which uses the proper config file).  still no go... I think it's still trying to write the new lilo setup to the cdrom instead of the hdd.

I try lilo -r /mnt/hda1/ (which is supposed to change the root dir) then it says... fatal: permission denied or something like that

Any ideas from anyone?
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Posted: June 20 2005,18:05 QUOTE

Hi
Are you running your lilo commands as root?
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Yoey Offline





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Posted: June 20 2005,18:06 QUOTE

yes
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Posted: June 20 2005,18:17 QUOTE

You might want to boot from cd using your dma option then try a frugal install to the same partition.  That will wipe out your hd-install but doesn't boot anyway.
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Posted: June 21 2005,10:04 QUOTE

@Yoey

I had the same problem. Try this thread to see if it helps. It works for me.

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....4;st=85

regards b1m1
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