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Joe Shmo

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Posted: Dec. 02 2005,09:03

Thanks for your help.

I don't have a (working) CD Rom, I've done a poor man install via Floppy and Network. So booting from a CD is not an option.

After changing the lilo.conf, I reboot the PC - so lilo was also restarted. Maybe I can suppress the pengiun on top of the page during the boot - maybe this causes the trouble.

Anyway - if I configure an automatic login for any user, than it is not a problem anymore - how does ist go? The system messages during boot are listed in the system stats, so I can look in there for possible errors.

adssse

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Posted: Dec. 02 2005,15:31

After editing the lilo.conf file as root I believe lilo needs to be run in order for lilo to use these new additions. So after saving your changes to lilo.conf open a root shell (in right click menu Xhells>Root Access) and try and run the following commands: (note: this is based on a frugal install, I dont remember what the path is on a regular hd install so just change the path to where your lilo.conf is)

ln -sf /mnt/hda2/boot /
lilo -C /mnt/hda2/boot/lilo.conf
after this try and reboot and see if the changes take effect.

Joe Shmo

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Posted: Dec. 02 2005,20:10

After entering

ln -sf /etc
lilo -C /ect/lilo.conf

it works - I can see every row during boot.

@adssee: Can you explain me, what the two lines exactly do?

Joe

adssse

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Posted: Dec. 03 2005,06:12

Glad to hear it is working for you.
'ln' is the link command, so it creates a reference to something. The option '-s' makes it a symbolic link, and the option '-f' just tells it to force the link.
As far as the 'lilo -C' I am not completely sure what it does. But I believe it basically installs or executes the new lilo.conf file, so it should be run whenever lilo.conf is edited.

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