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From: Chuck Gelm on 19 Jan 2007 16:34 <snip> > > I have been using versions of a third party boot manager since 1998. It > occupies the mbr and booted the Dell utility, WinXP, DOS6.22 and Linux > with lilo installed in the boot = /dev/hda6 superblock and the 2.4.31 > kernel from the Slackware 10.2 package. When I installed the 2.6 kernel > that wouldnt work because lilo.conf boot = /dev/sda overwrote the 3rd > party boot manager in the mbr. I could boot linux but cant boot the > Dell utility, WinXP or DOS6.22. That is why I want lilo in the root > superblock. Unless I can find some workaround that system will have to > be replaced. > > Do you have WinXP and if so how do you boot it? What about the Dell > Utility? Yes. Thus: # LILO configuration file # generated by 'liloconfig' # # Start LILO global section append="hdd=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi nousb noparport" boot = /dev/hda message = /boot/boot_message.txt prompt timeout = 999 # Override dangerous defaults that rewrite the partition table: change-rules reset # Normal VGA console vga = normal # End LILO global section # Windows bootable partition config begins other = /dev/sda1 label = Windows boot-as=0x80 table = /dev/sda # Windows bootable partition config ends # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hda3 label = Linux read-only # Linux bootable partition config ends No on Dell Utility. HTH, Chuck > Thanks for your response, > > Bob
From: Grant on 29 Jan 2007 21:41
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:23:30 -0600, Robert Rappaport <paperbag(a)cox.net> wrote: >Hi, > >I have a Dell D520 laptop with Slackware 10.2 and a 2.6.19 kernel. This >laptop and the 2.6 kernel recognize the hard drive as device sda. I >would like to set /etc/lilo.conf up to boot from the root superblock in >/dev/sda6 which is my / partition. I have been able to boot with "boot >= /dev/sda" but when I try "boot = /dev/sda6" I get the message >"Fatal: raid_setup: stat ( "/dev/sda6" )". I have "root = /dev/sda6" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Error message generated while checking boot= option, gets thrown if lilo cannot reference the given boot= option, or, if the device node is missing. The latter just bit me ;) Dunno if this helps... Grant. -- http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/ |