Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.
Hi My mail seems to be getting returned a lot lately though it also appears to get through, not sure where the problem is. As to editing lilo, be sure you are convinced of what you are doing, try the following: At a command konsole, sign in as su: $su Password Then: #vim /etc/lilo.conf Key the letter i Arrow down to what you want to remove and do the Delete/Backspace thing to edit out, then: Type in: :wq And press enter. AND DON'T FORGET THIS NEXT PART! Issue the following: #/sbin/lilo And if you get errors, go back to the start and correct the bits indicated by the errors. Enjoy Frank On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 07:45, martin brandt wrote: Quoting martin brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: martin brandt wrote: Quoting et [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK so /home is a seperate partition /dev/hda3 and something is wrong with the lilo.conf entry that prohibits reinstalling it in the usual manner What you have to do now is go back into rescue mode as before and choose consule and when there you will have to learn how to mount the partition (cannot remember, possibly rescue already does that, think it does) and then type vi (the name of the text editor) and repair the incorrect entry in /etc/lilo.conf, I cannot advise you of the entry as I do not have a seperate /home partition to give an example of, but in anycase first you have to type vi into google and print of some vi text editor instruction, as although it is a very powerful text editor it certainly will baffle the newbie. If you do need to mount /dev/hda(X) then you do it like this, mkdir /mnt/temp ls /mnt temp mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp punch up vi something like this, vi /mnt/temp/etc/lilo.conf and I think that will display lilo.conf in vi John -- linux counter #167806 Im trying to find the lil.conf but i cantg seem to find it. Ive looked in /etc/ and in mnt/temp/etc (temp doesnt exist). Where might it be? Might it called something else? Thanks. Hmmm, Then I think the partition on which the /etc/lilo.conf is on is not mounted You don't find /mnt/temp, you create it in the rescue consule, like this, mkdir /mnt/temp then check to see that you did, ls /mnt/temp returns, temp (amoungst other , probably) then attatch the device/partition to that directory, like this, mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp where (X) is the number of your OS's partition, ie where you installed the OS. then if you like you can navigate in consule to the /etc/lilo.conf and look at it, like this, cd (means change directory) cd /mnt/temp/etc/ that puts you inside /etc directory of the OS, and from there you can display the file on screen with, cat /lilo.conf then make a note of the stanzas to do with /home partition and report, we can take it from there. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah ha! Well my linux partition is hda5, mounted that, and in the lilo.conf i found: other=/dev/hda3 label=old_windows table=/dev/hda Now I installed windows over my old windows partition, which an image of seems to still appear in the windows boot loader, and obviously is causing problems when booting on linux. I need to remove this but how? (P.S. Is it me or is everyone else's mail getting returned occaisionally?)
Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.
Quoting John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: martin brandt wrote: Quoting et [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK so /home is a seperate partition /dev/hda3 and something is wrong with the lilo.conf entry that prohibits reinstalling it in the usual manner What you have to do now is go back into rescue mode as before and choose consule and when there you will have to learn how to mount the partition (cannot remember, possibly rescue already does that, think it does) and then type vi (the name of the text editor) and repair the incorrect entry in /etc/lilo.conf, I cannot advise you of the entry as I do not have a seperate /home partition to give an example of, but in anycase first you have to type vi into google and print of some vi text editor instruction, as although it is a very powerful text editor it certainly will baffle the newbie. If you do need to mount /dev/hda(X) then you do it like this, mkdir /mnt/temp ls /mnt temp mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp punch up vi something like this, vi /mnt/temp/etc/lilo.conf and I think that will display lilo.conf in vi John -- linux counter #167806 Im trying to find the lil.conf but i cantg seem to find it. Ive looked in /etc/ and in mnt/temp/etc (temp doesnt exist). Where might it be? Might it called something else? Thanks. Hmmm, Then I think the partition on which the /etc/lilo.conf is on is not mounted You don't find /mnt/temp, you create it in the rescue consule, like this, mkdir /mnt/temp then check to see that you did, ls /mnt/temp returns, temp (amoungst other , probably) then attatch the device/partition to that directory, like this, mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp where (X) is the number of your OS's partition, ie where you installed the OS. then if you like you can navigate in consule to the /etc/lilo.conf and look at it, like this, cd (means change directory) cd /mnt/temp/etc/ that puts you inside /etc directory of the OS, and from there you can display the file on screen with, cat /lilo.conf then make a note of the stanzas to do with /home partition and report, we can take it from there. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah ha! Well my linux partition is hda5, mounted that, and in the lilo.conf i found: other=/dev/hda3 label=old_windows table=/dev/hda Now I installed windows over my old windows partition, which an image of seems to still appear in the windows boot loader, and obviously is causing problems when booting on linux. I need to remove this but how? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.
Quoting martin brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: martin brandt wrote: Quoting et [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK so /home is a seperate partition /dev/hda3 and something is wrong with the lilo.conf entry that prohibits reinstalling it in the usual manner What you have to do now is go back into rescue mode as before and choose consule and when there you will have to learn how to mount the partition (cannot remember, possibly rescue already does that, think it does) and then type vi (the name of the text editor) and repair the incorrect entry in /etc/lilo.conf, I cannot advise you of the entry as I do not have a seperate /home partition to give an example of, but in anycase first you have to type vi into google and print of some vi text editor instruction, as although it is a very powerful text editor it certainly will baffle the newbie. If you do need to mount /dev/hda(X) then you do it like this, mkdir /mnt/temp ls /mnt temp mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp punch up vi something like this, vi /mnt/temp/etc/lilo.conf and I think that will display lilo.conf in vi John -- linux counter #167806 Im trying to find the lil.conf but i cantg seem to find it. Ive looked in /etc/ and in mnt/temp/etc (temp doesnt exist). Where might it be? Might it called something else? Thanks. Hmmm, Then I think the partition on which the /etc/lilo.conf is on is not mounted You don't find /mnt/temp, you create it in the rescue consule, like this, mkdir /mnt/temp then check to see that you did, ls /mnt/temp returns, temp (amoungst other , probably) then attatch the device/partition to that directory, like this, mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp where (X) is the number of your OS's partition, ie where you installed the OS. then if you like you can navigate in consule to the /etc/lilo.conf and look at it, like this, cd (means change directory) cd /mnt/temp/etc/ that puts you inside /etc directory of the OS, and from there you can display the file on screen with, cat /lilo.conf then make a note of the stanzas to do with /home partition and report, we can take it from there. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah ha! Well my linux partition is hda5, mounted that, and in the lilo.conf i found: other=/dev/hda3 label=old_windows table=/dev/hda Now I installed windows over my old windows partition, which an image of seems to still appear in the windows boot loader, and obviously is causing problems when booting on linux. I need to remove this but how? (P.S. Is it me or is everyone else's mail getting returned occaisionally?) -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 15:45, martin brandt wrote: Quoting martin brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: martin brandt wrote: Quoting et [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK so /home is a seperate partition /dev/hda3 and something is wrong with the lilo.conf entry that prohibits reinstalling it in the usual manner What you have to do now is go back into rescue mode as before and choose consule and when there you will have to learn how to mount the partition (cannot remember, possibly rescue already does that, think it does) and then type vi (the name of the text editor) and repair the incorrect entry in /etc/lilo.conf, I cannot advise you of the entry as I do not have a seperate /home partition to give an example of, but in anycase first you have to type vi into google and print of some vi text editor instruction, as although it is a very powerful text editor it certainly will baffle the newbie. If you do need to mount /dev/hda(X) then you do it like this, mkdir /mnt/temp ls /mnt temp mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp punch up vi something like this, vi /mnt/temp/etc/lilo.conf and I think that will display lilo.conf in vi John -- linux counter #167806 Im trying to find the lil.conf but i cantg seem to find it. Ive looked in /etc/ and in mnt/temp/etc (temp doesnt exist). Where might it be? Might it called something else? Thanks. Hmmm, Then I think the partition on which the /etc/lilo.conf is on is not mounted You don't find /mnt/temp, you create it in the rescue consule, like this, mkdir /mnt/temp then check to see that you did, ls /mnt/temp returns, temp (amoungst other , probably) then attatch the device/partition to that directory, like this, mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp where (X) is the number of your OS's partition, ie where you installed the OS. then if you like you can navigate in consule to the /etc/lilo.conf and look at it, like this, cd (means change directory) cd /mnt/temp/etc/ that puts you inside /etc directory of the OS, and from there you can display the file on screen with, cat /lilo.conf then make a note of the stanzas to do with /home partition and report, we can take it from there. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah ha! Well my linux partition is hda5, mounted that, and in the lilo.conf i found: other=/dev/hda3 label=old_windows table=/dev/hda Now I installed windows over my old windows partition, which an image of seems to still appear in the windows boot loader, and obviously is causing problems when booting on linux. I need to remove this but how? (P.S. Is it me or is everyone else's mail getting returned occaisionally?) Would fdisk /mbr from the prompt of a windows boot up disk work??? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.
Quoting et [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Friday 09 April 2004 09:01 am, John Richard Smith wrote: martin brandt wrote: Quoting Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 08:54, martin brandt wrote: After installing a windows boot, i then wanted to reinstall my linux bootloader, which i have had to do quite often with the regular reinstallations needed by windows ;) I loaded from my mdk 9.2 disc and executed the rescue command. This time however i got an error. I got: Added linux * Added linux-nonfb Added windows Added floppy Added failsafe Fatal:lseek /dev/hda3 : Invalid argument Now im guessing there is something wrong with my hda3 partition :( what can i do? Thanks What is ON /dev/hda3 ?? Else, remove it from your lilo.conf and re-run lilo. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done. -- James J. Ling hda3 is my home directory. I forgot to mention, because i cant reinstall the boot loader, i cant get onto my linux boot. If i can id rather not have to format hda3, but i wont matter too much if i do have to. Even when i try to reinstall/update mdk i get the same error. how do you come to think hda_3_ is a valid directory? usaully hda1 and had5 are valid, but due to only 1 primary partition per physical drive rules, hda2,3,4 are usually hidden OK so /home is a seperate partition /dev/hda3 and something is wrong with the lilo.conf entry that prohibits reinstalling it in the usual manner What you have to do now is go back into rescue mode as before and choose consule and when there you will have to learn how to mount the partition (cannot remember, possibly rescue already does that, think it does) and then type vi (the name of the text editor) and repair the incorrect entry in /etc/lilo.conf, I cannot advise you of the entry as I do not have a seperate /home partition to give an example of, but in anycase first you have to type vi into google and print of some vi text editor instruction, as although it is a very powerful text editor it certainly will baffle the newbie. If you do need to mount /dev/hda(X) then you do it like this, mkdir /mnt/temp ls /mnt temp mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp punch up vi something like this, vi /mnt/temp/etc/lilo.conf and I think that will display lilo.conf in vi John -- linux counter #167806 Im trying to find the lil.conf but i cantg seem to find it. Ive looked in /etc/ and in mnt/temp/etc (temp doesnt exist). Where might it be? Might it called something else? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.
martin brandt wrote: Quoting et [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK so /home is a seperate partition /dev/hda3 and something is wrong with the lilo.conf entry that prohibits reinstalling it in the usual manner What you have to do now is go back into rescue mode as before and choose consule and when there you will have to learn how to mount the partition (cannot remember, possibly rescue already does that, think it does) and then type vi (the name of the text editor) and repair the incorrect entry in /etc/lilo.conf, I cannot advise you of the entry as I do not have a seperate /home partition to give an example of, but in anycase first you have to type vi into google and print of some vi text editor instruction, as although it is a very powerful text editor it certainly will baffle the newbie. If you do need to mount /dev/hda(X) then you do it like this, mkdir /mnt/temp ls /mnt temp mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp punch up vi something like this, vi /mnt/temp/etc/lilo.conf and I think that will display lilo.conf in vi John -- linux counter #167806 Im trying to find the lil.conf but i cantg seem to find it. Ive looked in /etc/ and in mnt/temp/etc (temp doesnt exist). Where might it be? Might it called something else? Thanks. Hmmm, Then I think the partition on which the /etc/lilo.conf is on is not mounted You don't find /mnt/temp, you create it in the rescue consule, like this, mkdir /mnt/temp then check to see that you did, ls /mnt/temp returns, temp (amoungst other , probably) then attatch the device/partition to that directory, like this, mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp where (X) is the number of your OS's partition, ie where you installed the OS. then if you like you can navigate in consule to the /etc/lilo.conf and look at it, like this, cd (means change directory) cd /mnt/temp/etc/ that puts you inside /etc directory of the OS, and from there you can display the file on screen with, cat /lilo.conf then make a note of the stanzas to do with /home partition and report, we can take it from there. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.
martin brandt wrote: After installing a windows boot, i then wanted to reinstall my linux bootloader, which i have had to do quite often with the regular reinstallations needed by windows ;) I loaded from my mdk 9.2 disc and executed the rescue command. This time however i got an error. I got: Added linux * Added linux-nonfb Added windows Added floppy Added failsafe Fatal:lseek /dev/hda3 : Invalid argument Now im guessing there is something wrong with my hda3 partition :( what can i do? Thanks Well it looks to me as you've got an error in one of your lilo.conf stanzas somewhere to do with /dev/hda3 partition which you do not clarify as to it's nature. Can you reproduce the lilo.conf here to look at ? and what exactly is your /dev/hda3 partition ? If you run the same procedure again to consul mode and type something like, cat /etc/lilo.conf it ought to display the file then you can use the editor vi to correct it if necessary. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.
Another way is to elect Expert when instalation reaches Summary and simply edit out that particular entry and worry about it later because you seem to have enough other options toproceed for now. Enjoy Frank On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 00:24, John Richard Smith wrote: martin brandt wrote: After installing a windows boot, i then wanted to reinstall my linux bootloader, which i have had to do quite often with the regular reinstallations needed by windows ;) I loaded from my mdk 9.2 disc and executed the rescue command. This time however i got an error. I got: Added linux * Added linux-nonfb Added windows Added floppy Added failsafe Fatal:lseek /dev/hda3 : Invalid argument Now im guessing there is something wrong with my hda3 partition :( what can i do? Thanks Well it looks to me as you've got an error in one of your lilo.conf stanzas somewhere to do with /dev/hda3 partition which you do not clarify as to it's nature. Can you reproduce the lilo.conf here to look at ? and what exactly is your /dev/hda3 partition ? If you run the same procedure again to consul mode and type something like, cat /etc/lilo.conf it ought to display the file then you can use the editor vi to correct it if necessary. John
