ramdisk directories
Forum: HD Install
Topic: ramdisk directories
started by: Nils_Europa
Posted by Nils_Europa on July 11 2006,14:31
Hello!I've got an IBM TP subnote without any removable media, I have installed dsl, iso on hda2 100mb, opt and home ond hda3 3gb and there is hda4 900mb for swap. hda1 is a 4gig fat with win98. i've expected grub with frugal install, but lilo came up. the grub menu.lst is read-only, and can't write in su mode too, i've modified the lilo.conf, but no reaction. what is this?
there is a /boot/grub/menu.lst but RO and lilo is the loader.
i thought - because of the iso - /cdrom/boot/lilo.conf should be modified. i wrote:
other = hda1
table = hda
label = dos
etc...
I don't understand what is really going on. sorry.
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 12 2006,22:46
You probably chose to intall with lilo... or maybe you have an older version of DSL which I believe used lilo by default.Some points to consider:
LILO only will read what is on the mbr - it does not look for lilo.conf. You'll need to run
$ sudo lilo -C /path/to/my/lilo.conf
after you edit the config file.
GRUB will read menu.lst on boot, but you don't have stage1 installed on the mbr. If you want to use GRUB, you'll have to use grub-install
Posted by Nils_Europa on July 14 2006,10:40
I see, that lilo is default, and I know that after modifications on lilo.conf is should run lilo to write to mbr, but, somehow I need to copy linux to another partition to modify fstab for writable filesystems. Because of the read-only filesystems, I can't modify lilo.conf...
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 14 2006,20:19
You should be able to edit it somewhere on your ramdisk. (i.e. /home/dsl )Also, that lilo.conf may not be the current one...
Posted by Nils_Europa on July 14 2006,21:24
Should be, but cannot.
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 15 2006,01:27
If you can't edit anything on /home/dsl, then your DSL installation may be is messed up.... or maybe you aren't on as the dsl user.. just use your home directory ~/ or maybe try /tmp instead?
Posted by Nils_Europa on Sep. 08 2006,12:39
After reinstalling the new version of dsl to hda2 and grub is choosen everything works just fine. 
Posted by Nils_Europa on Sep. 21 2006,05:51
After reinstalling to HD with grub, everything works fine.