Apologies, I believe I've posted this in the wrong place.
Sorry Cecil
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| Author: | Bob23838 [ Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:32 pm ] |
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Hi, I've been struggling with the installation of KnoppMyth R5 D1 for some days now, and this looks without doubt the best site to post this question. I wanted to set up KnoppMyth to dual boot with Windows XP. I have XP installed on my 60Gb primary master and followed the manual install procedures on the KnoppMythWiki site to install KnoppMyth onto my 80Gb primary slave. However, I reached an impasse. Once the files had finished copying to hdb1, I rebooted, but was faced with a flashing cursor where Lilo was meant to appear. I'd been reading elsewhere on this forum that by running the following was supposed to fix the issue: # mount -o rw,dev /dev/hdb1 # chroot /mnt/hdb1 # lilo -v This gave an error, saying it didn't like something on line 2. When I looked, line 2 was referring to /dev/hda, so I commented this out and ran the 'lilo -v' command again. This time, it ran, and gave me the following: Reading boot sector from /dev/hda1 Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not exist, disk scan bypassed Warning: partition type 0x07 on device 0x0301 is a dangerous place for a boot sector. Proceed? [N|y] This is the point I'm at. Is this normal, and should I go ahead with it? I'm obviously err'ing on the side of caution here as I don't want to lose my Windows installation. Any pointers would be really appreciated. Thanks in advance Rob. |
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| Author: | Bob23838 [ Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:45 pm ] |
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Apologies, I believe I've posted this in the wrong place. Sorry Cecil
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| Author: | mac [ Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:19 am ] |
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lilo is going to have to install to your primary master, ie. the /dev/hda was correct. What was lilo's exact message? what was the line?: boot=/dev/hda you should also have the line: root=/dev/hdb1 dig around on the forum and google for problems with dual booting linux and xp with lilo. |
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| Author: | Bob23838 [ Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:00 pm ] |
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Hi mac, The line I took out of /etc/lilo.conf was: part: /dev/hda1 typ: 7 When I run lilo -v with this in, it says: Unrecognized token "part:" at or above line 2 in file '/etc/lilo.conf' If I comment this out, lilo -v gets further but displays what I originally posted (the warnings). Do you think this should be ok to leave out and proceed with the lilo config? |
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| Author: | Bob23838 [ Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:38 pm ] |
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Ok, I actually commented the top two lines from the /etc/lilo.conf file, which were (apparently shouldn't have been there in the first place): vga = normal part: /dev/hda1 typ: 7 and went ahead with the lilo -v, entering 'y' to proceed. Now, however, I get the following: Fatal: Filesystem would be destroyed by LILO boot sector: /dev/hda1 AAARGGHH! What now?! [eyes shut & breathing slowly] |
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| Author: | EvilTwin [ Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:53 pm ] |
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Try just "/dev/hda". You probably want in in the boot sector of the disk, not the first partiton... |
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| Author: | Bob23838 [ Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:39 pm ] |
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Hi, I changed the following line in /etc/lilo.conf: boot = /dev/hda1 to boot = /dev/hda and it seems to have worked. I've booted straight into Windows to let you know (haven't tried Linux yet), so mac & EvilTwin, thanks very much for your input. Cheers Rob. |
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