Lilo is in trouble!!!

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Lilo is in trouble!!!
started by: soulbrew

Posted by soulbrew on Jan. 04 2006,08:25

Hi People,
It's Marco here from Venice!

FIRST of all, a massive thank you, because thanks to various posts in this forum,
my knowledge on linux is getting better by the day, so thank you.

I'm a half newbie - I've managed to install Ubuntu on my desktop
in June and then do a full OS upgrade last month, without any glitch,
so I suppose that I understund much of what's going on.

My laptop is an old Twinhead P150 with a 1,4 HD. I need DSL for 2 main
reasons: access internet and record mp3 straight off my turntable. I'm a 7"
collector and I need mp3 to swap with other collectors, you know! While
the first aspect will be no problem, can you suggest a sound recorder/encoder similar to Audacity?

Last night I got through this routine, bearing in mind that I've copied DSL 1.0.1 CD
this summer on /dev/hda1:
- switched on the laptop with the boot floppy inserted
- F2 to choose setup, then dsl 2 (text mode only, as root: I've tried several
other modes but they take far too much time to load the GUI)
- once I get the root prompt I tiped, according to < http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/talk/node/64: >
- sudo su (but I'm already root so....) - cfdisk /dev/hda
- I see two partition /dev/hda1 - bootable - type 82 - 133 mb (cfdisked to 200mb
re: < http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-hd-install.html) > and /dev/hda5 - toggled to bootable -
type 83 - about 1,3 gb. And don't ask me why it's 5 not 2....
- mkswap /dev/hda1 ok
- swapon /dev/hda1: the prompt says that the resource or device is busy... so I skip
- dsl-hdinstall goes smooth
- mkliloboot prompt... here we are! I enter y and this is what I get:
- /dev/root on / type ext2 (rw)
- /dev/hda1 on /cdrom type vfat (ro)
- /dev/cloop on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro)
- /dev/hda5 on /mnt/hd type ext2 (rw)
- sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
- mount: No medium found
- loop0: read i/o error, sector 2
- EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
- mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, or too many mounted file systems
umount: /mnt/l1: not mounted
<blue>Setting up boot loader (LILO) into master boot record</blue>
- part: /dev/hda1, typ: 130
- Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not exixt, disk scan bypassed
- Fatal: open /boot/linux24: no such file or directory
<green>}The lilo boot installation process is finished.
- you must reboot to continue the final stage of the hard drive install
<light blue> Reboot now</light blue> Yes and there's what happens:
If no install CD or boot floppy is found, first I get a prompt (I think it's BIO's) saying:
Unknown error. Save to disk disabled. Press any key to continue. I press the space bar
and the screen starts filling up with 01 01 10 10 01 type of thing and it doesn't stop,
something like the Matrix, but less pleasant :cool:

I suspect that the keys problem might be the lack of linux24 and of minirt24.gz.
As they should be both on the floppy, I'll try to copy them to the relevant
locations on hd where they should be found.

In the meantime I'm dead open about suggestions!

Take care,

Marco

P.S. I give it another go in 5 mins time!

Posted by soulbrew on Jan. 04 2006,14:11

BIG UP TO THIS FORUM!!!!

I managed it!
Yes! On my own!!!!

Trial and error they used to say... Well it's true!
I wiped the MBR, start anew first with a frugal_instal to no avail
and the second time round with a dsl-hdinstal, a kiss to my girlfriend picture and....

IT WORKED!

Now I'm off to the car mechanic....

Soulbrew!

Posted by BarkingOwl on Jan. 04 2006,16:37

Marco,

If you like Audacity, you can use it on DSL. Get the MyDSL extension from < THIS MIRROR >. Looks like the version of Audacity for the extension is 1.2.2.

Cheers!