Re: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:18, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: Thank you Sridhar, Thank you for your recent suggestion. AS you will soon realize I am a complete novice. I am not even sure if LM has installed or not, it seems this is not the case. This LILO issue arose after the initial attempt of installing LINUX on hda6 which is the second partition of the first drive. That drive has Win98 on it's first partition. I don't even have a standardized installation manual and working purely trial and error. There is a manual on the CD in HTML format. The initial installation failed after trying to detect display resolution of 1024 x 768. This gave stripes on the screen. I restarted the installation again and this time chose 800 x 600. Still got the stripes. What type of video card do you have? Is it ISA or AGP? Look it up in the hardware database at http://www.linux-mandrake.com. Since this time I cannot boot into anything. If I start the system without and bootable media I get something to the effect of ...This is not a bootable media, insert a bootable disk and start again. I get the same if I disconnect the hard drive that contain Win2K Pro Server. So I cannot get at the boot sector where windoz resides. I would be grateful if you could address the following. I have already tried to boot into a Win98 boot disk to up date the master boot record. I don't have an emergency repair disk for the win2k. Do you think I can do much with the 3 set up disks? Should LILO be installed after a completed installation??? What do you mean by a Mandrake rescue disk in relation to your last mail. What your describing sounds as if there should be a bootable floopy rescue disk which I don't have. What I did was to boot into Mandrake setup disk press F1 from the main menu. Then from Root prompt I type in rescue. This gives me rescue@localhost: from which I run the commands. Is this what you meant??? Yep. From rescue@localhost the above returns mount: mount point /mnt/hda2 does not exist ...This was in response to reiserfs and ext2. You need to create the directory: # mkdir /mnt/hda2 I am assuming that your GNU/Linux / (i.e. the root directory) is on /dev/hda2. Then run: # mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 Replace ext2 in the above command with reiserfs if you're using ReiserFS. Then: # chroot /mnt/hda2 # cd / Configure /etc/lilo.conf in an editor, then run: # /sbin/lilo So I did not manage to get any further in running gnu. Any more suggestions would be very much appreciated. Please look at my other message regarding network card configuration/detection. Sincerely Siavash -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: 01 September 2001 07:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall The rescue disc creates a / directory on the disc itself. This means that commands that are on your hard drive but not on the disc will not work. Try this: 1. Boot with the rescue disc. 2. Run 'mount -t ext2 /dev/hdxy /mnt/disk'. If you use ReiserFS, replace 'ext2' with 'reiserfs'. '/dev/hdxy' should be the device locaion of your / directory (e.g. '/dev/hda1'). 3. Run 'chroot /mnt/disk'. 4. Run 'cd /'. You will now be running GNU/Linux off your hard drive. You can now run any command you want. You can either remove LILO, or you can edit /etc/lilo.conf to make it work for your system, and then run 'lilo' to write it to your boot sector. On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 09:36, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: I forgot to mention that [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U gives an error message about command not being found same for the lower case u. Cheers Siavash -Original Message- From: Siavash Sefidvash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 September 2001 00:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall Hi all, Few days ago I sent out a long message regarding first time installation woes. Amit and Dennis were kind enough to respond but alas their suggestions has not solved the problems. So I will split the issues into byte sizes in order to encourage more suggestions. Since installing Linux 8 I have lost my triple windows boot. I.e. Win2K Pro, Server and Win98. Can anyone think of the command for installing uninstalling LILO??? I have already booted into Mandrake boot disk. Selected F1 at main menu. Typed rescue. At the [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U when this did not work I tried the lower case -u. Still did not work. Can anyone help? Sincerely Siavash Sefidvash -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall
The rescue disc creates a / directory on the disc itself. This means that commands that are on your hard drive but not on the disc will not work. Try this: 1. Boot with the rescue disc. 2. Run 'mount -t ext2 /dev/hdxy /mnt/disk'. If you use ReiserFS, replace 'ext2' with 'reiserfs'. '/dev/hdxy' should be the device locaion of your / directory (e.g. '/dev/hda1'). 3. Run 'chroot /mnt/disk'. 4. Run 'cd /'. You will now be running GNU/Linux off your hard drive. You can now run any command you want. You can either remove LILO, or you can edit /etc/lilo.conf to make it work for your system, and then run 'lilo' to write it to your boot sector. On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 09:36, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: I forgot to mention that [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U gives an error message about command not being found same for the lower case u. Cheers Siavash -Original Message- From: Siavash Sefidvash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 September 2001 00:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall Hi all, Few days ago I sent out a long message regarding first time installation woes. Amit and Dennis were kind enough to respond but alas their suggestions has not solved the problems. So I will split the issues into byte sizes in order to encourage more suggestions. Since installing Linux 8 I have lost my triple windows boot. I.e. Win2K Pro, Server and Win98. Can anyone think of the command for installing uninstalling LILO??? I have already booted into Mandrake boot disk. Selected F1 at main menu. Typed rescue. At the [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U when this did not work I tried the lower case -u. Still did not work. Can anyone help? Sincerely Siavash Sefidvash -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall
Hi all, Few days ago I sent out a long message regarding first time installation woes. Amit and Dennis were kind enough to respond but alas their suggestions has not solved the problems. So I will split the issues into byte sizes in order to encourage more suggestions. Since installing Linux 8 I have lost my triple windows boot. I.e. Win2K Pro, Server and Win98. Can anyone think of the command for installing uninstalling LILO??? I have already booted into Mandrake boot disk. Selected F1 at main menu. Typed rescue. At the [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U when this did not work I tried the lower case -u. Still did not work. Can anyone help? Sincerely Siavash Sefidvash Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall
I forgot to mention that [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U gives an error message about command not being found same for the lower case u. Cheers Siavash -Original Message- From: Siavash Sefidvash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 September 2001 00:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall Hi all, Few days ago I sent out a long message regarding first time installation woes. Amit and Dennis were kind enough to respond but alas their suggestions has not solved the problems. So I will split the issues into byte sizes in order to encourage more suggestions. Since installing Linux 8 I have lost my triple windows boot. I.e. Win2K Pro, Server and Win98. Can anyone think of the command for installing uninstalling LILO??? I have already booted into Mandrake boot disk. Selected F1 at main menu. Typed rescue. At the [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U when this did not work I tried the lower case -u. Still did not work. Can anyone help? Sincerely Siavash Sefidvash Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall
On Saturday 01 September 2001 12:36 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: I forgot to mention that [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U gives an error message about command not being found same for the lower case u. Cheers Siavash -Original Message- From: Siavash Sefidvash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 September 2001 00:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall Hi all, Few days ago I sent out a long message regarding first time installation woes. Amit and Dennis were kind enough to respond but alas their suggestions has not solved the problems. So I will split the issues into byte sizes in order to encourage more suggestions. Since installing Linux 8 I have lost my triple windows boot. I.e. Win2K Pro, Server and Win98. Can anyone think of the command for installing uninstalling LILO??? I have already booted into Mandrake boot disk. Selected F1 at main menu. Typed rescue. At the [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U when this did not work I tried the lower case -u. Still did not work. Can anyone help? Sincerely Siavash Sefidvash Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: what about lower case lilo -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall
On Friday 31 August 2001 06:31 pm, Siavash Sefidvash escribió: Few days ago I sent out a long message regarding first time installation woes. Amit and Dennis were kind enough to respond but alas their suggestions has not solved the problems. So I will split the issues into byte sizes in order to encourage more suggestions. Good idea, often one question per topic (post) is the best. Since installing Linux 8 I have lost my triple windows boot. I.e. Win2K Pro, Server and Win98. Can anyone think of the command for installing uninstalling LILO??? lilo -u [device-name] BUT, if there's any problems, boot windoze, and from a DOS prompt try 'fdisk /mbr' to clear the master boot record. I have already booted into Mandrake boot disk. Selected F1 at main menu. Typed rescue. At the [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U when this did not work I tried the lower case -u. Still did not work. Can anyone help? Tho I've never needed to do it, I suspect you didn't include the device name, ie, (usually)lilo -u /dev/hda and it is case sensitive, so use lower case. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall
On Saturday 01 September 2001 12:46 am, Peter Watson wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2001 12:36 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: I forgot to mention that [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U gives an error also -ul or -U -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
