lilo.conf help pleaseForum: Other Help Topics Topic: lilo.conf help please started by: adssse Posted by adssse on May 26 2005,19:26
I am using in old laptop and need to adjust the resolution for when it is booting up before it gets to the gui because I cannot see the bottom of the screen. I am pretty sure that I need to change my vga = 0x314 or 788, I am not sure what the difference is, because my display can only handle 800x600. After that I believe I am supposed to run lilo. I am not exactly sure what "run lilo" means. If someone could tell me for sure which of these numbers I should change in lilo.conf and how to run lilo I would really appreciate it.
Posted by SuperLou on May 26 2005,20:33
Sweet. I'm not the only one who can't "run lilo." The closest I have gotten after editing it is lilo complaining about not have yet modified /etc/lilo.conf. However, /etc/lilo.conf is in a read-only file structure and I have no idea how to fix this. I have, instead, been trying to replace lilo with grub which is supposed to be much better but am having trouble with its installation.
Posted by roberts on May 26 2005,21:00
If a regular hard drive install, then as root edit /etc/lilo.conf, then at the prompt, type liloFor a frugal hard drive install, I would not even mess with editing lilo or trying to install grub.Just run an "update" on frugal. That is re-run frugal and say no to format the partition. You will still be able to enter the boot time options at the apropriate frugal prompts. You will probably want to enter vga=normal Doing a frugal "update" will not lose your extensions or backup.tar.gz So simple. If using frugal you should learn to do this, so when the next verison comes out, you have an easy way to upgrade Posted by SuperLou on May 26 2005,21:14
I have done this. No matter how many times I update frugal and tell it to look for mydsl in hda3, it always looks for them in the same partition as the dsl image. I'm not sure why. That is why I have been trying to switch to grub which works as long as i use a boot cd and set up the boot stuff every time. Except I can't install grub.
Posted by ke4nt1 on May 26 2005,23:07
SuperLou,What format is your hda3 ? Do you have the directory called optional in it ? ( and any extensions inside the optional directory ? ) Are you placing any extension in the "root" , or top level, of hda3 ? ...and since your running frugal, which uses your hda1 to mimic your LiveCD, you may be seeing it looking in BOTH the cdrom AND the hda3 for extensions.. 73 ke4nt Posted by SuperLou on May 26 2005,23:17
hda3 is linux ext2I have an optional dir off the root now. I have tried it with the dsl's in the root as well. I have made sure to mount hda1 and edit the lilo.conf there. The changes are kept between boots but seem to have limited effect. Posted by adssse on May 27 2005,13:35
I was able to get it working correctly, thanks for all of your help.
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