Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 lilo problem after install of updated kernel 2.4.22-21

2003-11-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 10 November 2003 07:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I did a completely fresh install of 9.2 and installed lilo with no
 problem. However after rebooting, logging in and installing all of the
 upgrades successfully, I then downloaded the updated kernel and did
 an rpm
 -ivh kernel2.4.22-21*.rpm.  The kernel installed, but gave me an error
 when updating lilo.

 When attempting to manually update lilo with the new information, the
 following occurs:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# lilo -v
 LILO version 22.5.7.2, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
 Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2003 John Coffman
 Released 20-Aug-2003, and compiled at 16:45:54 on Sep 18 2003

 Reading boot sector from /dev/sdd5
 part_nowrite: read:: Input/output error

 Anyone know why this is happening?  Never had this problem before
 9.2!!!

For some reason, it looks like lilo is trying to install in the boot sector of 
your root partition instead of in the mbr.  Can you post the contents of your 
lilo.conf?  Also, what is your disk partition layout?
-- 
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[expert] MDK 9.2 lilo problem after install of updated kernel 2.4.22-21

2003-11-10 Thread gczerw

I did a completely fresh install of 9.2 and installed lilo with no
problem. However after rebooting, logging in and installing all of the
upgrades successfully, I then downloaded the updated kernel and did
an rpm
-ivh kernel2.4.22-21*.rpm.  The kernel installed, but gave me an error
when updating lilo.

When attempting to manually update lilo with the new information, the
following occurs:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# lilo -v
LILO version 22.5.7.2, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2003 John Coffman
Released 20-Aug-2003, and compiled at 16:45:54 on Sep 18 2003

Reading boot sector from /dev/sdd5
part_nowrite: read:: Input/output error

Anyone know why this is happening?  Never had this problem before
9.2!!!

George

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