Neville Cobb wrote:
> Hi, a copy of my lilo.conf is attached if that is of any use.
I don't like attachments, because ya never know what they might contain. I don't
think that attachments should be used in these mailing lists. I'm not going to open
it, which
means that I don't know if the lilo.conf shown below is your's or that of Leanne.
> Nev
>
> Leanne Leith wrote:
>
> > Some wonderful person told me that I could fix my LILO problem by typing in LILO
>from the super user prompt. The result was "Syntax error near line 2 in
>file/etc/lilo.conf"
> >
> > The problem is that the second line of lilo.conf is missing a word, and how would
>we know what that is? does anyone know?
> >
> > All the other lines have "***= something"
> > My second line has "root= "
>
What's on the rhs of root=?
You need to specify the /dev/hd[ab]{n} file associated with your root (/) partition,
there.
For example, one of my configurations has /boot on hda5 and root or / on hda12 (not
sure why it got shoved that far up, but t'was the install program which did this).
Hence,
for root=, I have
root=/dev/hda12
mike
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> boot=/dev/hda5
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> vga=normal
> default=linux
> keytable=/boot/us.klt
> prompt
> timeout=100
> message=/boot/message
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=windows
> table=/dev/hda
> other=/dev/fd0
> label=floppy
> unsafe
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda6
> append="hdd=ide-scsi"
> read-only
