turning off "toram" cheatcode on hd install

Forum: HD Install
Topic: turning off "toram" cheatcode on hd install
started by: jastern949

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Posted by jastern949 on Sep. 28 2006,17:28

i borrowed a cd drive to install dsl on my hd, and returned the drive. i did a frugal install with grub.

the problem is i also chose the 'toram' cheatcode and now i want to turn that OFF. how can i do this?

(i've tried editing /KNOPPIX/boot/grub/menu.lst, but unfortunately everything's mounted read-only, so i can't write the file. i've even tried 'grub-install /dev/hda1' experimentally, but i get a message, '/dev/cloop does not have any corresponding BIOS drive'.)

how can i turn off the 'toram' cheatcode option, so i'm just running from my drive (and by the way, also mount the drive read/write)?

thanks for any help.

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Posted by roberts on Sep. 28 2006,17:56

As root mount the partition where you did the frugal install.
Say it is hda2

# mount /mnt/hda2
# vi /mnt/hda2/boot/grub/menu.list

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Posted by jastern949 on Sep. 28 2006,18:10

thanks. duh, i should have said it was lilo, not grub.

still, your instructions were useful. i mounted the drive first, and then went to /mnt/hda1/boot and edited the lilo.conf i found there (not the /etc/lilo.conf or /KNOPPIX/boot/lilo.conf). i saved the lilo.conf file and then ran:

$ lilo -C /mnt/hda1/boot/lilo.conf

but i got this error message:

Fatal: creat /boot/map~: Read-only file system

is this because everything is chroot'ed over to the ramdisk? how do i tell lilo to change the mbr of hda1?

anyway, i just gave up after tweaking with a bunch of the different grub commands. i guess turning off the 'toram' option is too difficult, once you're already running with the ramdisk. .. i'll just re-install, dang it :/

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