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Topic: can anyone paste a working lilo.conf for dsl??, I have to install lilo manually

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Juanito

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Posted: Mar. 06 2007,03:53

My original installation was made using a floppy which loaded DSL from a USB stick (the BIOS would not boot from USB). I then used the right-click menu to make a frugal hd lilo install - this means that DSL placed lilo.conf in /boot rather than me.

I am using DSL 3.3rc1 with the hd install - if you use a frugal install, upgrading/downgrading is as easy as replacing the /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX file with a different one.

esplinter

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Posted: Mar. 07 2007,08:04

no luck

I couldnt do a right install using the rescue floppy. I could do a frugal install tricking a little bit. normal hd-install didn´t work just has before and had to copy linux24 and minirt24.gz manually in order grub to works.

right now it works but I´d like to do a native hd-install because me laptop has just 32mb ram and I dont like frugal install with so low ram.

Im gonna try to do a hd-install on a vmware machine and then copy all filesystem to my laptop and install boot loader on it.

I will tell u if I had luck.

curaga

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Posted: Mar. 10 2007,13:08

Hmm.. Did you say hd-install works, but bootloader part doesn't?
Try: Do a hd-install to different partition than your frugal, and install boot loader stuff from frugal manually.. For grub you need to copy only linux24 and make a menu.lst entry..

Actually you could boot using the same kernel as in frugal, just put it like this: (frugal is hda1 in this and hd-install hda2)
Title DSL hdinstall
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda2

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esplinter

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Posted: Mar. 12 2007,10:47

many thanks curaga

finally I could boot from hd adding this line to menu.lst

root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda2

but now X doesn´t works

on /var/log/messages it says can´t find fb0 module so I thinks this is the problem. let´s investigate to try solve it......

curaga

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Posted: Mar. 12 2007,16:35

That's an easy one. For your laptops' fullscreen, 800x480 with 24bit colors use this line:

root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda2 vga=808 nofirewire xsetup

Xsetup is just for the first time, after that remove it.

If you want another resolution, check here

Non-related tip: add any no-switches to the line for hardware you don't have. It will speed up booting :;):

Like noscsi if you don't have scsi, or nofirewire if you got no firewire...

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