setting lilo on inter-partition install

Forum: HD Install
Topic: setting lilo on inter-partition install
started by: msuho

Posted by msuho on Jan. 13 2006,17:05

Here's the deal:

I installed DSL on a compact flash card with the USB-ZIP pendrive procedure.
This Compact Flash is now the sole media on a mini-itx machine (no CD-ROM, Floppy, or other Hard Drive. I do have an external USB Floppy) ,using an IDE adaptor, and I'm typing from it now, so that boots up fine.

The CF card is set up like this:

# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 50 51184 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 51 488 448512 83 Linux

I'd like to do a regular HD install into that hda2 partition. When I try this,
everything's OK until it's time to install the boot loader:

install a boot loader? (y/...): y
/dev/root on / type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /cdrom type vfat (rw)
/dev/cloop on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro)
/ramdisk on /ramdisk type tmpfs (rw,size=502068k,size=496979k)
/proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0666)
/dev/hda2 on /mnt/hd type ext2 (rw)
Use [G]rub or [L]ilo boot loader? (g/l): l
Setting up boot loader (LILO) into the master boot record..
part: /dev/hda1, typ: 6
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not exist, disk scan bypassed
Added Linux *
Skipping /vmlinuz.old
Device 0x0300: Inconsistent partition table, 1st entry
CHS address in PT: 0:1:1 --> LBA (63)
LBA address in PT: 32 --> CHS (0:0:33)
Fatal: Either FIX-TABLE or IGNORE-TABLE must be specified
If not sure, first try IGNORE-TABLE (-P ignore)
The boot installation process is finished.

I've tried a couple of different things to get lilo working, but no dice.

Any Ideas?

Since you're bound to ask why I'm not content with my poorman's USB install,
I'd like to use this box with my wireles USB card, and I've only been able to get that to work on a regular HD install: see < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=10715 >

Thanks,

Mark