[newbie] grub-install and lilo not working. sorta desperate problem.
Hi all, I have a small problem I was hoping someone had seen before.. I moved my linux drives to a new computer.. hda before is hda now, hdb before is hdb now.. so that hasn't changed. I couldn't boot from the drive. so I did an expert/upgrade to see if that helped. it didn't I tried reloading lilo to see if that helped, it didn't. I used grub-install /dev/hda with and without --recheck, it didn't help. I removed all kernels, and did the expert upgrade again.. it didn't help. when I run lilo, I get this message: Fatal: No images have been defined or default image doesn't exist. and when I run grub-install, I get this message: grub-install /dev/hda Drive does not have any corrosponding BIOS drive. I have a boot disk and the system is fine when I use that. all services come up just fine. Anyone know how I can fix this thing? the expert upgrade put the standard kernel back on the system, made all the correct files in /boot and everything should be fine, but its not. The bios recognises the drives.. lists them correctly.. and all seems well, it just doesn't work unless I boot from the floppy. The system is an IBM 300PL 233mmx with 160 mb ram. Can anyone offer me some suggestions on how to fix this? I don't want to reload the PC, because I have postfix setup with amavisd and filescan, and amavisd requires the compiling of lots of perl modules and stuff, so its just not something I want to do again if I can avoid it. any help would be very much appreciated. regards Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GRUB install
The latest versions of LILO have a workaround for the 1024 cylinder problem. Just put 'lba32' (without the quotes) in your /etc/lilo.conf in the main section (before the images are declared). Then run lilo to write to your boot sector. Also, the newer versions have a graphical interface not unlike GRUB :-) On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Roman Korcek wrote: Hi guys, When responding to this mail please email me directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since I am not subscribed to the list. Thanx. To the problem - I am using MDK7.1 and LILO doesn't want to install properly cos of the cyl 1024 problem so I wanted to install GRUB, but how ? I am not any clever neither from man grub nor from info grub and there is no howto on grub. I would really appreciate if someone would give me a hand with that. My disk is: /dev/hda1, 2 GB (c:) - windows /dev/hda5, 16 GB (d:) - my stuff for windows (progs, documents etc.) /dev/hda6, 1.8GB (e:) - Whole Linux / /dev/hda7, 0.2GB - Linux Swap Thanx in advance Roman -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "One World, One Web, One Programme" - Microsoft Promotional Ad. "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler
[newbie] GRUB install
Hi guys, When responding to this mail please email me directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since I am not subscribed to the list. Thanx. To the problem - I am using MDK7.1 and LILO doesn't want to install properly cos of the cyl 1024 problem so I wanted to install GRUB, but how ? I am not any clever neither from man grub nor from info grub and there is no howto on grub. I would really appreciate if someone would give me a hand with that. My disk is: /dev/hda1, 2 GB (c:) - windows /dev/hda5, 16 GB (d:) - my stuff for windows (progs, documents etc.) /dev/hda6, 1.8GB (e:) - Whole Linux / /dev/hda7, 0.2GB - Linux Swap Thanx in advance Roman
