| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 29975 | 2003-02-07 09:34:00 | Re installing LILO | nz_liam (845) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 119128 | 2003-02-07 09:34:00 | How do I install/reinstall LILO? I'm running RH8, and during setup I told it to install LILO, however that didn't happen or work for some reason, so I am currently using a floppy to boot Linux. Cheers Liam |
nz_liam (845) | ||
| 119129 | 2003-02-07 09:59:00 | You should be able to set it up by running linuxconf or the Red Hat configuration program. I wonder if you have virus checking turned on in your BIOS? That may have interfered with the installation of Lilo in the MBR. | Rod J (451) | ||
| 119130 | 2003-02-07 10:03:00 | I'll check the virus checking thing, to the best of my knowlege It wasan't turned on, but the the box went into the shop to have the HDD replaced recently (another faulty one) and they also flashed the bios. Will reboot and check that now. |
nz_liam (845) | ||
| 119131 | 2003-02-07 10:05:00 | Try running "lilo". If that doesn't work then you'll probably need to go into the Red Hat Control Panel or whatever it is. | segfault (655) | ||
| 119132 | 2003-02-07 10:15:00 | The virus thinge isint turned on, im just in the KDE control pannel now changing the boot settinggs now. | nz_liam (845) | ||
| 119133 | 2003-02-07 10:20:00 | Ok, had a look in the "KDE controll pannel>System>Bootmanager" but there is nothign there about reinstalling lilo, then opened the command prompt and typed su (and entered pwd etc) then typed lilo, and got command not found. Any ideas? |
nz_liam (845) | ||
| 119134 | 2003-02-07 10:53:00 | I doubt if the KDE control panel has Lilo configuration in it. I'm running Mandrake 9 and to change boot settings I have to run the Mandrake configuration program called Drakeconf (I think that's what they call it). There should be something similar in RH8. I'm not sure if linuxconf is available in RH8 because I read somewhere that RH thought too many people were stuffing up their systems through using it. | Rod J (451) | ||
| 119135 | 2003-02-07 11:05:00 | YAY F1 is working again, couldent post for about 15mins, take a look at the KDE Boot thinge here (sal.neoburn.net), and notice the "Install boot record to drive/partition:" box, well I cant select anything in the box, no can I type anything in the box, strange. | nz_liam (845) | ||
| 119136 | 2003-02-07 11:08:00 | Sorry about the delay, but I was hoping one of the better guys would show up :) Okay two options that I can see would be :- 1) to reload the disks and enter recovery mode or 2) make a lilo in /etc/lilo.conf :) This will mean that you need to create lilo.conf and it won't be easy. Supposedly man lilo will give you quite a few options that might be specific to Redhat but I doubt it. Here is mine boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map vga=normal default=linux-secure keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn restricted password=0rw3ll84 timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-secure label=linux-secure root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-secure.img append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi" read-only Initially you could probably just start with the basics to get the system up and then add more options as you go. Once your happy with lilo you can write it to the mbr lilo-install /dev/hda Have fun :) |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 119137 | 2003-02-07 11:11:00 | Ok from the kde boot thinge, this is whats in the expert panel (which is basically the config file). boot=Insert_your_boot_device_here prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message root=/dev/hda3 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 label="2.4.18-14" root=/dev/hda3 read-only initrd="/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img" image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14debug label="2.4.18-14" root=/dev/hda3 read-only initrd="/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14debug.img" image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-19.8.0uml label="2.4.18-19.8.0" root=/dev/hda3 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-24.8.0 label="2.4.18-24.8.0" root=/dev/hda3 read-only initrd="/boot/initrd-2.4.18-24.8.0.img" image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-24.8.0debug label="2.4.18-24.8.0" root=/dev/hda3 read-only initrd="/boot/initrd-2.4.18-24.8.0debug.img" image=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage label="Linux_Compiled" root=/dev/hda3 read-only optional What should I change? Cheers Liam |
nz_liam (845) | ||
| 1 2 3 4 | |||||