Re: [DNG] Help to install LiLo to a GPT HDD.
Приветствую. В Mon, 26 Aug 2019 14:51:51 +0200 (CEST), ты писал(а): > I have a https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-MA790X-UD3P-rev-1x > (I think), booting gpt partitioned 3TB disks with lilo. > > It has a ~100MB ext2 /boot at start of the disk, having a small first > /boot is a good practice. > > I usually partition etc. the disks from some rescue media or in > another box and then copies some pre-prepared image of a system to > disk, chroot to target system and set up booting. That way I can get > rid of udev which I don't need. Thank you very much! I also thought the same, but asked first so that i could escape a need to recopy huge volume of date due to repartitioning. Surely, making /boot as the first partition does the trick even for the GPT-HDD on the BIOS-MB! And no need to use GRuB! Андрей. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Help to install LiLo to a GPT HDD.
ÐндÑей: > Please help to install LiLo to a GPT HDD. I have a https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-MA790X-UD3P-rev-1x (I think), booting gpt partitioned 3TB disks with lilo. It has a ~100MB ext2 /boot at start of the disk, having a small first /boot is a good practice. I usually partition etc. the disks from some rescue media or in another box and then copies some pre-prepared image of a system to disk, chroot to target system and set up booting. That way I can get rid of udev which I don't need. Regards, /Karl Hammar ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Help to install LiLo to a GPT HDD.
Arnt Karlsen wrote on 25/8/19 12:15 am: > On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:48:10 -0400, Steve wrote in message > <20190823004810.18664...@mydesk.domain.cxm>: > >> If I remember from my LILO days, LILO couldn't reach out 2.7 GB to >> find a kernel. > > ..can this be fixed with a simple patch to make lilo "reach out > beyond 2.7GB", or is there some nasty fundamental limitation > going on here? > I don't know enough about LILO (anymore), but thought that it could possibly be an option for you to change and use extlinux unstead. Ralph. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Help to install LiLo to a GPT HDD.
On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:48:10 -0400, Steve wrote in message <20190823004810.18664...@mydesk.domain.cxm>: > If I remember from my LILO days, LILO couldn't reach out 2.7 GB to > find a kernel. ..can this be fixed with a simple patch to make lilo "reach out beyond 2.7GB", or is there some nasty fundamental limitation going on here? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Help to install LiLo to a GPT HDD.
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 21:07:42 +0700 Андрей via Dng wrote: > Приветствую. > > > Please help to install LiLo to a GPT HDD. > > Situation: I move installed OS from one drive (DOS partition scheme) > to another (3 TB, GPT partition scheme). The motherboard is old: BIOS, > Athlon 3000+. I have created single 2.7 TiB partition on which did > place the installed OS. Did mount to it /proc, /dev, /sys. > Changed /etc/lilo.conf with boot and root parameters according > to the new drieve IDs. ChRooted to it, typed lilo. LiLo gave only one > warning, that the drive is not the first one. > > Result: BIOS tells me that the drive capasity is 801 GB instead of > 3000. Well, for working as non bootable drive it worked alright. > But booting from the new drive gives me L 99 99 99 ... error. -- The > geometry problem, as i get it. And it halts booting. > > Now. From Slackware site i read, that it is possible to install LiLo > on a GPT-HDD, but is not specified how, and as i remember, even, > without an additional "technical" partition. > > So, how do i install LiLo so that it boots OS from the GPT-drive? If I remember from my LILO days, LILO couldn't reach out 2.7 GB to find a kernel. So what you did, back in the day, was make a small partition right at the front of the disk for /boot. Then you put the real partition(s) in the remaining space. So mount the boot partition and the root partition, then chroot install. I don't think it had as much to do with GPT as the huge /dev/sda1. If I remember correctly, GPT puts a fake MBR right where you'd expect an MBR to be, and that fake MBR has all the right information, so I think LILO should be OK with that. SteveT Steve Litt August 2019 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Help to install LiLo to a GPT HDD.
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 21:07:42 +0700, Андрей wrote in message <20190822170724.7mkco...@smtp4j.mail.yandex.net>: > Приветствую. > > > Please help to install LiLo to a GPT HDD. > > Situation: I move installed OS from one drive (DOS partition scheme) > to another (3 TB, GPT partition scheme). The motherboard is old: BIOS, > Athlon 3000+. I have created single 2.7 TiB partition on which did > place the installed OS. Did mount to it /proc, /dev, /sys. > Changed /etc/lilo.conf with boot and root parameters according > to the new drieve IDs. ChRooted to it, typed lilo. LiLo gave only one > warning, that the drive is not the first one. > > Result: BIOS tells me that the drive capasity is 801 GB instead of > 3000. Well, for working as non bootable drive it worked alright. > But booting from the new drive gives me L 99 99 99 ... error. -- The > geometry problem, as i get it. And it halts booting. > > Now. From Slackware site i read, ..this?: https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:slackware_admin:installing_with_gpt_without_uefi > that it is possible to install LiLo > on a GPT-HDD, but is not specified how, and as i remember, even, > without an additional "technical" partition. > > So, how do i install LiLo so that it boots OS from the GPT-drive? ..https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Slackware+install+LiLo+on+a+GPT-HDD&ia=web came up with the above link and these: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/slackware-uefi-lilo-4175656413/ https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/slackware-uefi-lilo-4175656413/page2.html https://linuxhint.com/install-slackware-linux/ ..credible advice: Whenever a Slackware wizard recommends making a boot usb etc medium, act on that recommendation. https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:install ..this pxe setup recipe wizard is neat: https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:pxe_install ..3 Slackware install play lists that should get you started: https://www.youtube.com/user/mikemurphycs/playlists -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] Help to install LiLo to a GPT HDD.
As far as I remember, you have to make sure the bootloader's kernel is at a sector that LILO can access. GPT is too new for LILO. You also have to provide space where the bootloader saves its second stage, always if my assumption that it uses the same mechanism used by legacy GRUB, is correct. So, according to me, you should leave the very first partition next to the initial GPT headers free and unformatted. Use a very small partition space. All this if from memory which often is wrong with the passage of so many years since I last used LILO and installed GRUB. GRUB works on GPT formatted disks under a UEFI system. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] Help to install LiLo to a GPT HDD.
Приветствую. Please help to install LiLo to a GPT HDD. Situation: I move installed OS from one drive (DOS partition scheme) to another (3 TB, GPT partition scheme). The motherboard is old: BIOS, Athlon 3000+. I have created single 2.7 TiB partition on which did place the installed OS. Did mount to it /proc, /dev, /sys. Changed /etc/lilo.conf with boot and root parameters according to the new drieve IDs. ChRooted to it, typed lilo. LiLo gave only one warning, that the drive is not the first one. Result: BIOS tells me that the drive capasity is 801 GB instead of 3000. Well, for working as non bootable drive it worked alright. But booting from the new drive gives me L 99 99 99 ... error. -- The geometry problem, as i get it. And it halts booting. Now. From Slackware site i read, that it is possible to install LiLo on a GPT-HDD, but is not specified how, and as i remember, even, without an additional "technical" partition. So, how do i install LiLo so that it boots OS from the GPT-drive? Андрей. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
