LILO does not give me a choiceForum: HD Install Topic: LILO does not give me a choice started by: rishi Posted by rishi on Dec. 11 2005,18:50
I installed DSL on my hard drive using frugal install. During boot, LILO does not show a prompt and loads linux by default. I have Win Me installed on my other partition and would like to use that at times.So, I checked /etc/lilo.conf, which I could not edit. So I made a copy of it and edited it by adding prompt and other=/dev/hda label=Windows table=/dev/hda I replaced the existing file with the new file I made and renamed it lilo.conf. Then I gave the command /sbin/lilo and I get the error "Fatal: creat /boot/map~: Read-only file system" When I reboot, there is no prompt, and lilo.conf is restored to what it was orginally. Unitl I can boot windows, I will be kind of lame...suggestions will be appreciated. -rishi Posted by larkl on Dec. 11 2005,23:25
You're going to have a tough go of it with LILO and a dual boot with windows. I fought it for a whole weekend, gave up, switched to grub and it's working great. I just could not get past the read/write problem with lilo.conf. I'd suggest that you try grub, it's pretty easy, do a search and you'll find a ton of help in the forum. Posted by sheldonisaac on Dec. 12 2005,00:53
Well, Larkl, I am not as motivated - had the Lilo problem, gave up, and did GRUB frugal.
Posted by rishi on Dec. 12 2005,12:21
Maybe I should try Grub too...
Posted by sarah on Dec. 15 2005,10:49
Have you tried editing the /etc/lilo.conf file as root?
Posted by larkl on Dec. 15 2005,23:25
Seems that you cannot edit lilo.conf in a frugal install. Lots of posts about this.
Posted by muskrat on April 22 2006,04:04
Frist off -- How do you become root in a frugal install? It doesn't ask for passwords during the install like the standard HD install does. Second -- It's a readonly file system. |