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| Thread ID: 48802 | 2004-09-01 10:16:00 | Yoper Installation | Murray P (44) | Press F1 |
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| 267969 | 2004-09-01 10:16:00 | Hi people Attempting to install Yoper V 2.1.0-4 and having a few issues. It's not booting to Yoper/YOS on the reboot after setting up user and root, it's just going to my current Mepis, Lilo boot loader. I cannot find an option to make a boot floppy, my preferred method to save messing with the current Mepis and WinOS boot choices. I have tried not choosing the default hda to load Lilo to but only get a choice of the HDD's to boot, no floppy devices mentioned in the list. Current installations are (3 HDD's not all partitions are listed): hda1 win2k fat32 hdb no OS (2xpartitions) hdd6 Mepis ext3 hdd8 Mepis home ext3 hdd9 YOS reiserf4 hdd10 swap One thing I haven't done is to choose the default Lilo install at every option in my search for a boot floppy option. Should I just take a deep breath and trust Yoper and Lilo to sort out the right options, detect the presence of the other OS's and give me the options further down the track which doesn't seem to be the right approach to me especially as there is very little info along the way including in the readme file. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 267970 | 2004-09-01 11:05:00 | Hi Murray. Boot Mepis. run: cat /etc/lilo.conf copy the output somewhere safe.... Or just cp /etc/lilo.conf /mnt/hda1 Im not 100% sure on how to kill the mbr in Linux, but when me and a friend were having similar issues with Yoper not over-writing Grub left over from Ark Linux on his laptop, we booted a Win98 Boot Floppy and ran: fdisk /mbr This killed Grub, and we installed Yoper with no issues :-) Let me know how you get on, and what you think of reiser4 too! Ive found it really fast! From there, if Mepis isnt in your lilo.conf, post back with the contents of both and we'll take it from there. It should pick it up though....? Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 267971 | 2004-09-01 11:50:00 | Thanks for that Chill. In the Mepis Control Center > Lilo > Operating Systems tab > Admin.. Mode (root) > Add Other OS button > two input boxes; Boot From Disk: ............... Select... (browse) and Label: .............. If I can point this at the partition where Yoper is installed do you think it will pick it up, there is also a probe button on the main panel of the Operating Systems tab that I assume once I have entered the info to add an OS it will look for a boot file, yes, no, just try it? Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 267972 | 2004-09-01 11:55:00 | If you boot Mepis and copy the files from the Yoper /boot to your Mepis /boot, then yea sure :-) Chill@Stellar ~ $ cat /etc/lilo.conf prompt timeout=60 default=YOS-2.6.8.1-6 vga=791 boot=/dev/hda lba32 bitmap = /boot/yoper_boot.bmp bmp-colors = 1,,0,2,,0 bmp-table = 120p,173p,1,15,17 bmp-timer = 254p,432p,1,0,0 image=/boot/yos label=YOS read-only root=/dev/hda1 append = "splash=silent " initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.8.1-3.img Basically you just want the initrd, and /boot/yos (Which is a symlink to the real kernel name) copied across, as well as the System.map file. Let me know if this needs clarification Dont forget to run the command "lilo" as root after editing /etc/lilo.conf. The Control Center may do this for you though. Give it a shot just using the Control Center first and see how you get on! Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 267973 | 2004-09-01 12:11:00 | Back in windows, Mepis started going flaky on me or more KDE I think. Can't mount the Yoper partition from within Mepis, does not have a mount command for it does not recognise the file system. So I'll try the your earlier suggestion first. At least this time I have home on a separate partition than the last time I broke something. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 267974 | 2004-09-01 12:46:00 | Oh yeah, Mepis wont read Reiser4 unless you patch your kernel or try something like love-sources, ck-sources, -mm, -nitro, -xx, -redeeman.... all have Reiser4 which you'll need to mount Yoper. Looks like you're down to option 1 then.... Boot knoppix and use partimage to backup your MBR if you're really worried! Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 267975 | 2004-09-01 13:38:00 | Hmm, I'm having one of those days, Knoppix wouldn't boot all the way, stalled on initialising peripherals, even in failsafe. Have booted it ok before, no changes since. Anyway, Mepis has Partition Image but I don't know what to input to get it to back up the MBR and no help file so will have to sift through the help files and man pages. Not tonight though. At least I'm finally started to come out of my shell (cough) as far as finding out what commands will do what. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 267976 | 2004-09-01 23:13:00 | >>At least I'm finally started to come out of my shell (cough) as far as finding out what commands will do what. Watch out - you'll become a Linux geek ;) |
Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 267977 | 2004-09-01 23:33:00 | Just run the command: partimage There's an option in there to backup your MBR :-) Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 267978 | 2004-09-02 01:41:00 | Ta, I was in a gui of sorts although it looked very much like an old DOS utility with command inputs to various fields. I take it partimage will run it from a CLI which strangely enough sounds simpler to do to me. I'll tackle this tonight. Yoper here I come ready or not ;) Cheers Murray P |
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