Re: [newbie] Lilo on floppy

2005-04-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Leroy Britton wrote: I am using mandrake 10.1 and need to prepare a floppy for lilo. I found instructions and they say to use fdformat /dev/fd0H1440, however this gives me a error of No such file or directory. I have also tried fdformat /dev/fd0 and that gives me No such device or address.

Re: [newbie] Lilo on floppy

2005-04-07 Thread riccardo
On Thursday 07 April 2005 06:33 pm, Leroy Britton wrote: I have also tried fdformat /dev/fd0 and that gives me No such device or address. ___ ~ maybe, stick in a floppy then, as root, command :- mkfs.minix /dev/fd0 or mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0 best rgds

Re: [newbie] Lilo and new kernel

2005-01-31 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 31 Jan 2005 20:14, mike wrote: I have renamed my lilo.conf in the 10.1 side to something else, so when I update the kernel on the 10.1 side it could not run lilo (and write over the conf I have on the 10.0 side). Which has worked on

Re: [newbie] Lilo and new kernel

2005-01-31 Thread mike
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 31 Jan 2005 20:14, mike wrote: I have renamed my lilo.conf in the 10.1 side to something else, so when I update the kernel on the 10.1 side it could not run lilo (and write over the conf I have on the 10.0 side). Which has worked on previous version's of mdk for

Re: [newbie] Lilo and new kernel

2005-01-31 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
mike wrote: I have 1 harddrive and 10.0mdk and 10.1mdk installed on it. I use lilo as my boot manager and installed in mbr. The lilo.conf on my 10.0 side is the one I use and have a entry like so in my lilo.conf for 10.1 side... image=/mnt/mdk101/boot/vmlinuz label=mdk10.1

Re: [newbie] Lilo and new kernel

2005-01-31 Thread mike
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: mike wrote: I have 1 harddrive and 10.0mdk and 10.1mdk installed on it. I use lilo as my boot manager and installed in mbr. The lilo.conf on my 10.0 side is the one I use and have a entry like so in my lilo.conf for 10.1 side... image=/mnt/mdk101/boot/vmlinuz

Re: [newbie] Lilo and new kernel

2005-01-31 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
mike wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: mike wrote: I have 1 harddrive and 10.0mdk and 10.1mdk installed on it. I use lilo as my boot manager and installed in mbr. The lilo.conf on my 10.0 side is the one I use and have a entry like so in my lilo.conf for 10.1 side...

Re: [newbie] Lilo and new kernel

2005-01-31 Thread mike
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: mike wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: mike wrote: I have 1 harddrive and 10.0mdk and 10.1mdk installed on it. I use lilo as my boot manager and installed in mbr. The lilo.conf on my 10.0 side is the one I use and have a entry like so in my lilo.conf

Re: [newbie] Lilo and new kernel... Success!

2005-01-31 Thread mike
mike wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: mike wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: mike wrote: I have 1 harddrive and 10.0mdk and 10.1mdk installed on it. I use lilo as my boot manager and installed in mbr. The lilo.conf on my 10.0 side is the one I use and have a entry like so in my

Re: [newbie] LILO

2004-06-20 Thread John Richard Smith
Teilhard Knight wrote: Can you think any reason why Mandrake 10.0 Community, and also the Official,report that there is a sector of 80 Gb, and another sector of 891 !! Gb overlapping? I had a similar experience recently and had to do a Low level format to rid a corupt partition table , my

Re: [newbie] LILO

2004-06-20 Thread Richard Hackwith
At 11:22 PM 6/19/2004 -0400, you wrote: On Saturday 19 June 2004 05:42 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: Can you think any reason why Mandrake 10.0 Community, and also the Official, report that there is a sector of 80 Gb, and another sector of 891 !! Gb overlapping? When I installed the Official for

Re: [newbie] LILO

2004-06-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Teilhard Knight wrote: Can you think any reason why Mandrake 10.0 Community, and also the Official, report that there is a sector of 80 Gb, and another sector of 891 !! Gb overlapping? When I installed the Official for a second time, I got a worse thing saying that the partition table was too

Re: [newbie] LILO

2004-06-19 Thread Teilhard Knight
Teilhard Knight wrote: Can you think any reason why Mandrake 10.0 Community, and also the Official, report that there is a sector of 80 Gb, and another sector of 891 !! Gb overlapping? When I installed the Official for a second time, I got a worse thing saying that the partition

Re: [newbie] LILO

2004-06-19 Thread Frank
So does this mean that you can boot by some means? If so, then as 'su' issue # /sbin/lilo and take not of any errors. Let us know. PS. Did you try testdisk . Regards Frank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Teilhard Knight wrote:

Re: [newbie] LILO

2004-06-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 19 June 2004 05:42 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: Can you think any reason why Mandrake 10.0 Community, and also the Official, report that there is a sector of 80 Gb, and another sector of 891 !! Gb overlapping? When I installed the Official for a second time, I got a worse thing

RE: [newbie] Lilo and XP

2004-02-27 Thread Tony S. Sykes
To: Tony S. Sykes Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo and XP Tony S. Sykes wrote: You can do it through mcc. Change the NT to be the default. Tony. That´s what I thought, but there is no interface in MMC to do this. SR -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message

Re: [newbie] Lilo and XP

2004-02-27 Thread Stephen Reynolds
Tony S. Sykes wrote: Steve, You should have boot options in mmc, but you just need to run drakboot if you can't find it from the command line as root and you can configure it from there. Tony. That´s what I thought, but when I run drakboot, even as root, there are no option to edit the way lilo

Re: [newbie] Lilo and XP

2004-02-27 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:53:26 - Tony S. Sykes disseminated the following: You can do it through mcc. Change the NT to be the default. Tony. That´s what I thought, but there is no interface in MMC to do this. I checked before I posted, and ya, I was surprised to find no option for

RE: [newbie] Lilo and XP

2004-02-27 Thread Tony S. Sykes
] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo and XP Tony S. Sykes wrote: Steve, You should have boot options in mmc, but you just need to run drakboot if you can't find it from the command line as root and you can configure it from there. Tony. That´s what I thought, but when I run drakboot, even as root

Re: [newbie] lilo questions

2004-01-11 Thread mike
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 17:38, mike wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 16:30, mike wrote: I don't know whether it will be able to set it up correctly with the boot partitions on separate drives, so you may well have to hand edit. Anne That

Re: [newbie] lilo questions

2004-01-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 10 January 2004 16:30, mike wrote: Hello, I kinda borked up my workstation when I did the kernel updates. I have 2 hard drives both on the master ide channel hda and hdb hda has dual boot windows and mdk9.2 and hdb has just mdk9.1 on it. Also hdb used to be hda when its install

Re: [newbie] lilo questions

2004-01-10 Thread mike
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 16:30, mike wrote: Hello, I kinda borked up my workstation when I did the kernel updates. I have 2 hard drives both on the master ide channel hda and hdb hda has dual boot windows and mdk9.2 and hdb has just mdk9.1 on it. Also hdb used to be hda

Re: [newbie] lilo questions

2004-01-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 10 January 2004 17:38, mike wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 16:30, mike wrote: If I were you I would try booting from CD1, hitting F1 where you get a chance to restore your lilo - you don't need one on each drive. That should at least get you in again,

Re: [newbie] LILO

2003-12-18 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 06:14 pm, many eyes noted that BODEX wrote: Hi, My lilo was recordered to MBR. Then I installed windows on the different partition. There is no starting linux menu now. How can I get an access to my linux? Use your boot floppy and get into Mandrake Linux, then bring up a

Re: [newbie] Lilo start entries

2003-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 06 December 2003 12:01 pm, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Adolfo Bello wrote: I would asume that failsafe is very similar to the Windows Safe Mode but the linux-nonfb meaning escapes me. No framebuffer. Where can i find a discription of this and why I might need to

Re: [newbie] Lilo start entries

2003-12-05 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 06:42, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi, Just wanting to improve my linux knowledge and so When I boot I use LiLo to display as I also have a Win95 OS HDD in one of the IDE chains. Lilo presents me with the following listing: Linux Linux-nonfb failsafe

Re: [newbie] Lilo appends under MD 9.2

2003-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 12:10 pm, Dick Gevers wrote: In my /etc/lilo.conf all boot options were written with append messages acpi=off. with the lilo version under Mandrake 9.2 this was changed during install to ...acpi=ht. Neither in the documentation, nor when googling do I

Re: [newbie] Lilo appends under MD 9.2

2003-11-04 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:09:47 -0600, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] Lilo appends under MD 9.2: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0310.0/0521.html Which was returned by Google when I noticed the change an also

Re: [newbie] Lilo error

2003-10-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 17 Oct 2003 1:59 am, C Tresenriter wrote: This morning I downloaded and ran memtest86 - it was added as a boot choice when lilo started. When I came home tonight I was unable to boot into 9.1 I got the L 99 error. Lilo was installed in the mbr and lilo.conf showed /dev/hdd1. I

Re: [newbie] Lilo

2003-08-28 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:14:26 -0400 dlwiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: How do I make win2k default boot? (lilo) Either edit /etc/lilo.conf manually, or in Mandrake Control Center IIRC, there is an option to do this in /etc/lilo.conf, just switch the default=linux bit...pretty simple. then,

Re: [newbie] Lilo

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Huff
How do I make win2k default boot? (lilo) as root: edit /etc/lilo.conf and change the default line, then run lilo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Lilo config Lilo boot

2003-08-26 Thread Russ
Hi All, I am really, really, really sorry about the multiple posts. I didn't think any of them got through. My email address was changed some time ago and I just never re-subscribed (I wasn't doing much on the computer at all). My windows drive crashed recently so I was setting it up for a linux

Re: [newbie] LiLo Boot

2003-08-25 Thread Jason Greenwood
Yes, there are 2 ways to do this. Go into the Mandrake Control Center and change boot options. BootDrakBootLilo/Grub Mode (Configure)Then ok at the first dialog, then you can delete entries and set a new default. OR Go into /etc/lilo.conf in a text editor as root and then edit the file by hand.

Re: [newbie] LiLo Boot

2003-08-25 Thread HaywireMac
On 24 Aug 2003 14:22:01 -0700 Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I had a dual boot system and I allowed Lilo to boot to Windows by default (for my daughter). I now have only Linux on here but I can't figure out how to remove the Windows from the boot menu and make it boot to Linux by default.

Re: [newbie] LiLo Boot

2003-08-25 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 19:57, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:45:41 +1200 Jason Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Yes, there are 2 ways to do this. Go into the Mandrake Control Center and change boot options. BootDrakBootLilo/Grub Mode (Configure)Then ok at the first dialog,

Re: [newbie] LiLo Boot

2003-08-25 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:45:41 +1200 Jason Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Yes, there are 2 ways to do this. Go into the Mandrake Control Center and change boot options. BootDrakBootLilo/Grub Mode (Configure)Then ok at the first dialog, then you can delete entries and set a new default.

Re: [newbie] LiLo Boot

2003-08-25 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 20:09, ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 19:57, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:45:41 +1200 Jason Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Yes, there are 2 ways to do this. Go into the Mandrake Control Center and change boot options.

Re: [newbie] LiLo Boot

2003-08-25 Thread HaywireMac
On 24 Aug 2003 20:09:01 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: no /sbin/lilo is different than reading the MBR as LILO does when booting. ?sbin/lilo commits the changes to the mbr gotcha, thanks for clarifying! -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net

Re: [newbie] Lilo config

2003-08-25 Thread Jason Greenwood
Here we go again, since you seem to have missed it: Yes, there are 2 ways to do this. Go into the Mandrake Control Center and change boot options. BootDrakBootLilo/Grub Mode (Configure)Then ok at the first dialog, then you can delete entries and set a new default. OR Go into /etc/lilo.conf in a

Re: [newbie] lilo config

2003-08-25 Thread Mark Annandale
On Monday 25 Aug 2003 4:34 am, Russ wrote: Hi All, I originally set this computer up as a dual boot with the Windows as default (for my daughter). I no longer have the Windows partition but I cannot figure out how to remove that link from lilo. Could someone point me in the right direction?

Re: [newbie] LiLo Boot

2003-08-25 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:28:51 + Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: If you are able to run lilo as something other than root you should be shot`cause that means you`ve got a very serious security problem. I always add as root, because if not there is the inevitable reply, I ran 'lilo'

RE: [newbie] lilo frustration!

2003-06-06 Thread Adolf, Michael F
Message- From: FemmeFatale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 6:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] lilo frustration! At 03:16 PM 6/3/2003 +0100, you wrote: content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

RE: [newbie] lilo frustration!

2003-06-06 Thread Femme
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 09:07, Adolf, Michael F wrote: I finally was able to change the default to windows, but it should have been easier. First I opened MCC then selected the big boot icon, got a screen which had a lilo configure button (been there, done that), then another screen containing a

Re: [newbie] lilo frustration!

2003-06-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 22:49, Adolf, Michael F wrote: I am trying unsuccessfully to make windows the default boot in lilo. Post your /etc/lilo.conf and we'll re-write it for you mate. -- Tue Jun 3 23:00:00 EST 2003 23:00:00 up 4 days, 8:09, 4 users, load average: 0.25, 0.25, 0.20

RE: [newbie] lilo frustration!

2003-06-04 Thread Adolf, Michael F
I am at work now. I'll post tomorrow. Thanks -Original Message- From: Stephen Kuhn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 7:02 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] lilo frustration! On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 22:49, Adolf, Michael F wrote: I am trying unsuccessfully

RE: [newbie] lilo frustration!

2003-06-04 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Does MDK control center not enable you to do this? Tony. -Original Message- From: Adolf, Michael F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:53 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] lilo frustration! I am at work now. I'll post tomorrow. Thanks -Original

Re: [newbie] lilo frustration!

2003-06-04 Thread eric huff
On Tue June 3 2003 07:16 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Does MDK control center not enable you to do this? It lets you do it. It's a slow starting tool, but i hafta say, if you don't quite know what you are doing, it tends to do it right for you... eric I am trying unsuccessfully to make windows

RE: [newbie] lilo frustration!

2003-06-04 Thread Adolf, Michael F
: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] lilo frustration! Does MDK control center not enable you to do this? Tony. -Original Message- From: Adolf, Michael F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:53 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE

Re: [newbie] lilo frustration!

2003-06-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 03 Jun 2003 4:35 pm, Adolf, Michael F wrote: I tried several ways, I'm sure MDK was one of them. I think MDK took me thru several lilo configuration windows, but none that allowed windows to be selected. There was one window that displayed a list (6 radio button choices) from which

Re: [newbie] lilo troubles (RH-related)

2003-03-26 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Thanks, this is very insteresting. I had assumed that multi-boot NT/linux could be done ony from lilo, now I learn that it can be done with the NT loader. Just one question on the dd command below: the first parameter in reality is if=/boot, right? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raffaele,

Re: [newbie] lilo troubles (RH-related)

2003-03-26 Thread Leonardo Diciolla
Raffaele, sorry it was a mistake, the command is dd if=boot device* bs=512 count=1 of=linux.bin (*ie. /dev/xxx). I do have that configuration and it works fine. Actually you don't ever need lilo (unless you load initrd or are feeding kernel parameters).If this is your case just uninstall lilo

Re: [newbie] lilo troubles (RH-related)

2003-03-24 Thread Leonardo Diciolla
Raffaele, did you install lilo on your root / partition or on your master partition? Do you want to dual boot your machine or only mount your ntfs partition? If you want to mount it you have to compile the ntfs module at least and then go with modprobe or insmod. That doesn't depend upon Lilo.

Re: [newbie] lilo troubles (RH-related)

2003-03-24 Thread Raffaele Belardi
That's what I thought, and I did exactly as you write. But, running lilo to update the bootloader, we got the error message partition not found or something alike, and the bootloader was not changed. Thanks for the link, I was quite surprised seeing that ntfs is not included in RH. I guess MDK

Re: [newbie] lilo troubles (RH-related)

2003-03-24 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Leonardo, we installed lilo on the first sector of the /boot partition, as reccomended by the RH help for NT-linux coexistence on the same disk (in case of W95/98-linux coexistance it reccomended to put lilo in MBR instead), but I admit I did not understand why. What's this difference between

Re: [newbie] Lilo got sick

2003-01-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 03:15, Russ wrote: Hi All, Shut down my computer last night and everything was just fine. Booted this morning and got an L followed by rows of 01. I did make a boot disk but that was before I redid my system and now Linux is on the second disk, so obviously that

Re: [newbie] Lilo got sick

2003-01-26 Thread Steve Jeppesen
Not to correct you Stephen, but isn't it something like fdisk -mbr or something? Hate to see somebody run fdisk without that mbr option and ruin their current setup.. OTH Steve On 27 Jan 2003 05:55:24 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 03:15, Russ wrote: Hi

Re: [newbie] Lilo got sick

2003-01-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 06:29, Steve Jeppesen wrote: Not to correct you Stephen, but isn't it something like fdisk -mbr or something? Hate to see somebody run fdisk without that mbr option and ruin their current setup.. OTH Steve Generally, when you run FDISK, you are presented with options

Re: [newbie] Lilo got sick

2003-01-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 26 Jan 2003 9:08 pm, you wrote: Except that PM tells me I have a problem with my partitions, and doesn't go any further. Anne Here's the trick with PM - You HAVE to have some type of partition it can write to - be it a diskette or be it an actual FAT/VFAT partition. It only

Re: [newbie] Lilo got sick

2003-01-26 Thread Russ
HI Stephen, You may be onto something here. This is what I did; On my original try with Linux this go around I just disconnected my old HD and partitioned a new one, Installed Win98 on the first half and Linux on the second. Then I decided to slave them together. So I simply uninstalled Lilo.

Re: [newbie] Lilo got sick

2003-01-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 08:46, Russ wrote: HI Stephen, You may be onto something here. This is what I did; On my original try with Linux this go around I just disconnected my old HD and partitioned a new one, Installed Win98 on the first half and Linux on the second. Then I decided to slave

Re: [newbie] Lilo (and a bit OT)

2003-01-18 Thread Paul Kaplan
Thank you all. W2K definitely seems to demand /dev/hda1. Here's what I'm trying to do: I have a laptop, supplied by my company, w/ W2K installed in a single partition on the first harddrive. I also have a second harddrive on which I have shown that I can install LM9 and use Samba to connect

Re: [newbie] Lilo (and a bit OT)

2003-01-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Paul Kaplan wrote: Thank you all. W2K definitely seems to demand /dev/hda1. Here's what I'm trying to do: I have a laptop, supplied by my company, w/ W2K installed in a single partition on the first harddrive. I also have a second harddrive on which I have shown that I can install LM9 and

Re: [newbie] LILO messed up?

2003-01-17 Thread John Richard Smith
s. Wizard wrote: Going to answer my own question on this one...no guts no glory, right? Changed the 0x81 to 0x80 and rebooted, life was good again. s.W On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 01:32, s. Wizard wrote: Hi all, I have a dual-boot box which, after some messing with, I fear I've broken. I'm

Re: [newbie] Lilo

2003-01-16 Thread civileme
On Thursday 16 January 2003 06:04 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: What is the correct lilo.conf entry for Windows2K on a second hard disk (/dev/hdc)? W2K is the only OS on that disk and there is only one partition on that disk. The following hangs with the message Loading Windows: other=/dev/hdc1

Re: [newbie] Lilo

2003-01-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 02:04, Paul Kaplan wrote: What is the correct lilo.conf entry for Windows2K on a second hard disk (/dev/hdc)? W2K is the only OS on that disk and there is only one partition on that disk. The following hangs with the message Loading Windows: other=/dev/hdc1

Re: [newbie] Lilo

2003-01-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Paul Kaplan wrote: What is the correct lilo.conf entry for Windows2K on a second hard disk (/dev/hdc)? W2K is the only OS on that disk and there is only one partition on that disk. The following hangs with the message Loading Windows: other=/dev/hdc1 label=windows table=/dev/hdc TIA Paul

Re: [newbie] Lilo

2003-01-16 Thread _nasturtium
Hello! On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:51 pm, civileme wrote: On Thursday 16 January 2003 06:04 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: What is the correct lilo.conf entry for Windows2K on a second hard disk (/dev/hdc)? W2K is the only OS on that disk and there is only one partition on that disk. AFAIK there is NO

Re: [newbie] LILO messed up?

2003-01-16 Thread s. Wizard
Going to answer my own question on this one...no guts no glory, right? Changed the 0x81 to 0x80 and rebooted, life was good again. s.W On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 01:32, s. Wizard wrote: Hi all, I have a dual-boot box which, after some messing with, I fear I've broken. I'm successfully booting

Re: [newbie] Lilo graphical

2003-01-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 03 Jan 2003 3:54 am, Russ wrote: HI Anne, Thank you for responding to this post. Sorry for the delay in responding. It sort of slipped through the cracks (long story, I won't bore you with the facts). Anyway, I checked that file and it did say 5 on that line. I did know about the

Re: [newbie] Lilo graphical

2003-01-03 Thread Jason
MCCBootBoot ConfigConfigureThen in the dialog box that pops up, in the dropdown box under bootloader to use simply select LILO with graphical menu. Done and save changes on exit of MCC. Hope this helps. Cheers Jason Russ wrote: Hi All, can anyone tell me how to change lilo to graphical

Re: [newbie] Lilo graphical

2003-01-02 Thread Russ
HI Anne, Thank you for responding to this post. Sorry for the delay in responding. It sort of slipped through the cracks (long story, I won't bore you with the facts). Anyway, I checked that file and it did say 5 on that line. I did know about the problem with exiting without saving so that

Re: [newbie] LILO

2002-12-12 Thread Anders Lind
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 04:55:07 -0600 Mr. VLE79E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to configure LILO so it does not automatically run Linux. Open up /etc/lilo.conf as root with your favorite editor, there should be a line where it probably says default=linux now, change that line so it says

Re: [newbie] LILO

2002-12-12 Thread Raffaele Belardi
...and issue #lilo on the command line , otherwise changes do not take effect. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 04:55:07 -0600 Mr. VLE79E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to configure LILO so it does not automatically run Linux. Open up /etc/lilo.conf as root with your

Re: [newbie] LILO

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 21:55, Mr. VLE79E wrote: How to configure LILO so it does not automatically run Linux. If you look below at my /etc/lilo.conf - you'll see the default=Linux - you can change how the default boot is setup in yours by editing basically the same way, then run lilo from a

Re: [newbie] LILO

2002-12-12 Thread Anders Lind
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:32:05 +0100 Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and issue #lilo on the command line , otherwise changes do not take effect. raffaele Oooppsss...of course, I forgot that, thanks for correcting me... although /sbin/lilo might be necissary if it says command

Re: [newbie] LILO

2002-12-12 Thread Mr. VLE79E
h no wonder it didn't work. I will give it a shot later.. From: Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] LILO Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:07:50 +0100 On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:32:05 +0100 Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [newbie] LILO

2002-12-12 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
plz check /etc/lilo.conf On Thursday 12 December 2002 03:55 am, Mr. VLE79E wrote: How to configure LILO so it does not automatically run Linux. _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*.

Re: [newbie] LILO

2002-12-12 Thread Warren Post
El jue, 12-12-2002 a las 04:55, Mr. VLE79E escribió: How to configure LILO so it does not automatically run Linux. You can edit the configuration file manually (/etc/lilo.conf) as root or use the GUI tool in the Mandrake Control Center, under boot. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras

Re: [newbie] lilo default boot time (something weird?)

2002-12-04 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Terry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03 Dec 2002 20:50:49 -0500 To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] lilo default boot time (something weird?) If you're making the changes and re-running lilo and not seeing any response then the 'lilo.conf

Re: [newbie] lilo default boot time (something weird?)

2002-12-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 02:45, Angus Auld wrote: [root@localhost angus]# locate lilo.conf /home/angus/tmp/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf /usr/share/man/man5/lilo.conf.5.bz2 --- (The lilo.conf in ~/tmp is a copy that I have just created for

Re: [newbie] lilo default boot time (something weird?)

2002-12-03 Thread Terry Smith
If you're making the changes and re-running lilo and not seeing any response then the 'lilo.conf' file you're editing must not be the file that lilo is using. Do you have a dual boot system? Do you have multiple drives? Do a 'locate lilo.conf' (as root) and tell us what you see. Terry Smith

Re: [newbie] lilo default boot time (something weird?)

2002-12-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 12:50, Terry Smith wrote: If you're making the changes and re-running lilo and not seeing any response then the 'lilo.conf' file you're editing must not be the file that lilo is using. Do you have a dual boot system? Do you have multiple drives? Do a 'locate

Re: [newbie] lilo default boot time

2002-12-02 Thread Charlie
On December 2, 2002 06:15 am, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings...another newbie ques. I have changed the default boot time for lilo in MCC from 10 seconds to 30. However, I need to know how I can change the text message to read 30 instaed of the default 10. I am using lilo w/the text display.

Re: [newbie] lilo default boot time

2002-12-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 00:15, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings...another newbie ques. I have changed the default boot time for lilo in MCC from 10 seconds to 30. However, I need to know how I can change the text message to read 30 instaed of the default 10. I am using lilo w/the text display.

Re: [newbie] lilo default boot time

2002-12-02 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 09:48:32 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] lilo default boot time On December 2, 2002 06:15 am, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings...another newbie ques. I have changed the default boot

Re: [newbie] lilo default boot time

2002-12-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 10:45, Angus Auld wrote: Thanks for the pointers Charlie, Stephen. I am now getting a 30 second delay, for some reason however, lilo has switched to a graphical login mode! I want the text mode, and I had it since installing 9.0. I have tried changing it back to text

Re: [newbie] lilo default boot time

2002-12-02 Thread Angus Auld
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 10:45, Angus Auld wrote: Thanks for the pointers Charlie, Stephen. I am now getting a 30 second delay, for some reason however, lilo has switched to a graphical login mode! I want the text mode, and I had it since installing 9.0. I have tried changing it

Re: [newbie] lilo default boot time

2002-12-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 12:35, Angus Auld wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 10:45, Angus Auld wrote: Thanks for the pointers Charlie, Stephen. I am now getting a 30 second delay, for some reason however, lilo has switched to a graphical login mode! I want the text mode, and I had it

Re: [newbie] lilo default boot time (something weird?)

2002-12-02 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03 Dec 2002 12:44:30 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] lilo default boot time On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 12:35, Angus Auld wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 10:45, Angus Auld wrote: Thanks

Re: [newbie] lilo default boot time (something weird?)

2002-12-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 02 December 2002 09:02 pm, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03 Dec 2002 12:44:30 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] lilo default boot time On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 12:35, Angus Auld wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03

Re: [newbie] lilo default boot time (something weird?)

2002-12-02 Thread Angus Auld
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 10:45, Angus Auld wrote: Thanks for the pointers Charlie, Stephen. I am now getting a 30 second delay, for some reason however, lilo has switched to a graphical login mode! I want the text mode, and I had it since installing 9.0. I

Re: [newbie] Lilo problems - almost there

2002-11-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 1:41 am, Terry Smith wrote: Excellent Anne! Good job. Why don't you post your new lilo.conf file and we'll see if folks can deduce what's wrong with the 8.2 stanza. boot=/dev/hde map=/boot/map vga=normal default=Mandrake_8.2 keytable=/boot/uk.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100

Re: [newbie] Lilo problems - almost there

2002-11-19 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 1:41 am, Terry Smith wrote: Excellent Anne! Good job. Why don't you post your new lilo.conf file and we'll see if folks can deduce what's wrong with the 8.2 stanza. boot=/dev/hde map=/boot/map vga=normal default=Mandrake_8.2

Re: [newbie] Lilo problems - almost there

2002-11-19 Thread Sharrea
On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 10:20 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: snip label=Mandrake_8.2 root=/dev/hde6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=nobiospmp devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi should be: append=nobiospnp devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux

Re: [newbie] Lilo problems - almost there

2002-11-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 8:12 pm, Sharrea wrote: On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 10:20 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: snip label=Mandrake_8.2 root=/dev/hde6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=nobiospmp devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi should be: append=nobiospnp devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi Sharrea

Re: [newbie] Lilo problems - almost there

2002-11-18 Thread Terry Smith
Excellent Anne! Good job. Why don't you post your new lilo.conf file and we'll see if folks can deduce what's wrong with the 8.2 stanza. Terry Smith On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 16:01, Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks to the questions Terry asked last night and John's suggestions today, I have finally

Re: [newbie] lilo nopnpbios

2002-11-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 08 Nov 2002 10:21 pm, you wrote: Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have read from the Linux-Mandrake site that it is a good idea to put into lilo this line linux nopnpbios if you have the via chipset and Mandrake 9. Is this true and exactly how and where does one

Re: [newbie] lilo nopnpbios

2002-11-09 Thread ET
On Friday 08 November 2002 03:58 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com wrote: Dear All, I have read from the Linux-Mandrake site that it is a good idea to put into lilo this line linux nopnpbios if you have the via chipset and Mandrake 9. Is

Re: [newbie] LILO Settings

2002-11-01 Thread Technoslick
I have not as yet figured out how to do this graphically, but editing the lilo.conf file in /etc seems to do this well enough. I would suggest making a specifically named backup copy of 'lilo.conf' (like lilo.conf.orig) so that the original can't be overwritten while you play around with the

Re: [newbie] LILO Settings

2002-11-01 Thread Technoslick
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 8:48 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] LILO Settings I have not as yet figured out how to do this graphically, but editing the lilo.conf file in /etc seems to do this well enough. I would suggest making a specifically named backup copy of 'lilo.conf' (like lilo.conf.orig

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