lilo.conf on frugal

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: lilo.conf on frugal
started by: jls legalize

Posted by jls legalize on April 05 2005,13:15

how can I modify lilo.conf on frugal install?

Posted by Posh on May 10 2005,17:51

Did you ever figure it out?... i am working on trying to figure this out myself.

Posted by mikshaw on May 10 2005,19:43

sudo su
rm /etc/lilo.conf
cp {/KNOPPIX,}/etc/lilo.conf

/etc/lilo.conf is a symlink to a file on a read-only filesystem

Posted by SuperLou on May 28 2005,22:41

Would i edit this lilo.conf to tell a frugal install to look for myDSL packs in hda3? Even though I tell it to in the frugal script it doesn't work.

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on May 29 2005,00:28

Use grub. It's a lot easier.

Lots of docs and instructions around the net, and a DSL specific one in the Doc section.

Posted by SuperLou on May 29 2005,01:15

Tried the DSL one. I don't think my BIOS likes it. I can boot in using a grub cd and editing the boot options. I run the grub.dsl once inside dsl but when i do "grub-install /dev/hda" it gives me an error "/dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive." I've been stonewalled for sometime now and willing to try just about anything. Although I'd really like to avoid reflashing the bios. That pretty much scares the willies out of me.

Thanks,
Louis

Posted by ke4nt1 on May 29 2005,01:51

I see that error all the time..
If grub won't pull the drives out of your bios,
try this command, instead of just "grub-install /dev/hda"

grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda
for a HDInstall, or

grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/hda1/boot /dev/hda
for a frugal/poormans install

Make sure you HAVE a "/boot" directory in that location before you start!
If not, make one!

Once completed, grub should work for you, and you should see a
/boot/grub directory in hda1 ( for this example, it can actually be any partition )

73
ke4nt

Posted by SuperLou on May 29 2005,15:57

Sweet, making progress now. Gets as far as "Checking if '/boot/grub/stage1' exists.... no"
"Error 15: File not found"

Posted by SuperLou on May 29 2005,16:21

Ok, I think the problem was that i didn't boot in using grub. When I boot into grub it says hda1 is already mounted to /cdrom. When I go to follow your frugal instructions it complains it is a read-only file system. If I boot through lilo I can mount hda1 but then don't have the stage 1 stuff. Umount of /dev/hda1 says the device is busy.