Can't find "mkliloboot"

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Can't find "mkliloboot"
started by: nycanc2000

Posted by nycanc2000 on Dec. 09 2005,15:37

Attempting to install DSL 2.0 on an old Toshiba 486DX laptop (diskette, no CD).
I got the ISO onto a partition on the harddrive (/dev/hda2), and mounted it as iso9660, and copied the boot and KNOPPIX directories to /dev/hda2.

Booted DSL from the floopy, and I'm following the hard drive installation nstructions on:

< http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-hd-install.html >

I executed the "sudo -u root dsl-hdinstall" command. I next attempt to execute the "sudo -u root mkliloboot" command, but mkliloboot is not found.

Where do I find mkliloboot?

Thanks in advance!
nycanc2000

Posted by dabble on Dec. 11 2005,04:36

I'm having the same problem. But I really like this distro. I'm on a 350 MHz system, and I need the efficency.

I'm trying to switch from SuSE to DSL. Could that be causeing any problems?

Or maybe we could try a different boot loader?

Posted by nycanc2000 on Dec. 11 2005,11:15

The instructions on the installation page talk about running "mkliloboot" seperately. "mkliloboot" apparently is supposed to run as part of the "dsl-hdinstall" command.

When I ran "dsl-hdinstall", I was running it in a Xterminal window, and because of the video card in my Toshiba T2135CS, the prompts that were supposed to be displayed were not visible. This was apparently caused because I was poking around at some of the other applications, and what ever they did would mess up the Xterminal.

If you are launching "dsl-hdinstall" from an Xterminal, start the "dsl-hdinstall" and let it run. Don't do anything else. After the HD install has run, it will prompt for installing the Boot loader.

I think it displayed a message that the root file installation is completed, and then it prompted for installing the boot loader.

I think, the questions were:
Do you want to install boot loader: (y/...) <-- Answer "y"
Do you want to install Grub or LILO: (g/l) <-- You choose Grub or LILO, I chose "l", lowercase "L".
(I don't remember if there were other questions between choosing Grub or LILO and rebooting...)
Do you want to reboot: (y/...) <-- Answer "y"

Hope that helps.
nycanc2000

Posted by dabble on Dec. 13 2005,20:20

Oh, here's an error I was getting with # sudo -u root dsl-hdinstall /dev/hda1:

/dev/hda1 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!

And even after I used the command # umount /dev/hda1, I still get that error!