On Sunday 03 November 2002 22:10, Rick Bailey wrote: > I have an Internet Appliance (I-Opener) that I have hacked to work with an > external hard drive. > > I'd like to dual boot Win98SE and Linux Mandrake on it. > > I installed the hard drive in another machine, and copied win98 setup > files, and ran the mandrake installation up to the first reboot, and then > took the drive out and placed it in my i-opener. > > I cannot boot into linux mandrake, it's giving me some kind of init not > found error message. > > I've figured out how to use a program call Winux that uses loadlin and at > least get into a text version of linux. I've tried to start kde from the > command line, but it looks like I don't have any of the environment > variables set. > > Is there any way to repair this from the console line? I'm thinking that > maybe if I can get kde running, there might be some sort of user interface > to help me repair it? The other issue is that since this is an internet > appliance, I don't have a cd rom or floppy drive. > > Any suggestions on how to tackle this? > > Thanks, > > Rick
Well if you're on the commandline in Mdk (init1 probably) just run lilo again by typing "/sbin/lilo" (not the quotes) and hitting enter. You'll see output that lilo is being reinstalled. Then reboot into Mdk. That's the usual way if an existing lilo got lost somewhere. If that doesn't work for you you'll have to be more specific about this hacked i-opener and how it boots...you might have to edit /etc/liloconf. Remeber to run "/sbin/lilo" to get your changes to work, just rebooting won't do the trick! Good luck, Harm
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