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Topic: ramdisk directories, frugal allright, but what is this?

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Nils_Europa Offline

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Posted: 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.

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Posted: 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

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Posted: 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...