Re: [newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-27 Per discussione JRH
On Tuesday 27 Apr 2004 09:43, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Er...I think we've been through this already (day late and a dollar short) NYAH! I rolled over and took it like a Man in the end I reinstalled, and whilst I was at it, set aside 3GB as FAT32, and reloaded '98 on my main drive. It's

Re: [newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-27 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 01:55, JRH wrote: On Tuesday 27 Apr 2004 09:43, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Er...I think we've been through this already (day late and a dollar short) NYAH! I rolled over and took it like a Man in the end I reinstalled, and whilst I was at it, set aside 3GB as

Re: [newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-27 Per discussione JRH
On Tuesday 27 Apr 2004 19:51, Stephen Kuhn wrote: So now you should be able to point lilo to the /dev/hda1 and boot - have you tried that now? Not yet. havent had chance! Just been setting up a Lexmark (spit) printer on my neighbours Windows (spit) computer. Once I have had a coffee and

Re: [newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-27 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 27 April 2004 05:14 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 20:07, Frank wrote: Good call Tina. ...ya ain't allowed to agree with her! (grin) (...reckon I'll sleep on the lounge tonight) stephen kuhn - owner I thought we were not supposed to agree with Joe! You can't have

Re: [newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-27 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 12:41, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 27 April 2004 05:14 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 20:07, Frank wrote: Good call Tina. ...ya ain't allowed to agree with her! (grin) (...reckon I'll sleep on the lounge tonight) stephen kuhn - owner I

[newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-25 Per discussione JRH
Hi all. Until a week ago, Windows used to share my HDD alongside Linux. Then, last weekend, MS-DOS decided it was going to ruin my Linux install (with a little help from me inadvertently I guess!). I have tried to survive without a Windows partition, but In reality, I cant. I have loaded up

Re: [newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-25 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 21:06, JRH wrote: Hi all. Until a week ago, Windows used to share my HDD alongside Linux. Then, last weekend, MS-DOS decided it was going to ruin my Linux install (with a little help from me inadvertently I guess!). I have tried to survive without a Windows

Re: [newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-25 Per discussione JRH
On Sunday 25 Apr 2004 12:28, Stephen Kuhn wrote: JRH After you edited the /etc/lilo.conf - did you re-run lilo? Ahh hold up Stephen. I used the GUI tool to alter things. looks like it hasnt saved it! I've noticed it has a habit of doing stuff like that, for example, when I copy

RE: [newbie] 9.2 lilo? problems. (solution)

2003-11-03 Per discussione Tony S. Sykes
- From: Paul Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 10:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.2 lilo? problems. You might try going through the installation routine in expert mode (hit F1 at then type expert to start the installation program). Use existing

Re: [newbie] grub lilo

2003-10-28 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Frank wrote: I'm starting to learn more about grub. And on a Mandrake system that means trouble for someone. I've used both grub and lilo, and cannot find much to choose between them, but mandrake tends to prefer lilo so I use that now days. You see, I now have my primary disk exclusively

Re: [newbie] grub lilo

2003-10-28 Per discussione Johan
, 2003 9:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] grub lilo I'm starting to learn more about grub. And on a Mandrake system that means trouble for someone. You see, I now have my primary disk exclusively Mandrake and though the first partition is /boot I have yet to see Lilo ala GUI perform reliably yet

Re: [newbie] grub lilo

2003-10-28 Per discussione Michael Adams
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:10:17 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank wrote: I'm starting to learn more about grub. And on a Mandrake system that means trouble for someone. I've used both grub and lilo, and cannot find much to choose between them, but mandrake tends to

Re: [newbie] grub lilo

2003-10-27 Per discussione Heather/Femme
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 23:26:42 + James Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used both. There are pros and cons on both. SNIPPAGE I'm sure that there are more, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head. I usually setup new users with lilo, it's easier to understand and modify

Re: [newbie] grub lilo

2003-10-27 Per discussione Raffaele Belardi
For the differences: Lilo uses the BIOS to access the partition where the image is residing. It is file-system independent. This is accomplished at boot sector installation time, by translating the location of the kernel image into a list of disk sectors, which then LILO loads using the BIOS.

Re: [newbie] grub lilo

2003-10-27 Per discussione Raffaele Belardi
Sorry, I should have written Grub incorporates a reduced version of a file system _driver_ raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the differences: Lilo uses the BIOS to access the partition where the image is residing. It is file-system independent. This is accomplished at boot sector

Re: [newbie] grub lilo

2003-10-27 Per discussione Heather/Femme
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:21:22 +0100 Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the differences: Lilo uses the BIOS to access the partition where the image is residing. It is file-system independent. This is accomplished at boot sector installation time, by translating the location of the

Re: [newbie] grub lilo

2003-10-27 Per discussione Frank
I'm starting to learn more about grub. And on a Mandrake system that means trouble for someone. You see, I now have my primary disk exclusively Mandrake and though the first partition is /boot I have yet to see Lilo ala GUI perform reliably yet. The first screen always comes up OK but when

Re: [newbie] grub lilo

2003-10-26 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Sunday 26 October 2003 03:33 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: I've heard grub is experimental .. but RH uses it almost exclusively and alot of ppl say its better than LILO. True? False? I use GrUB. I wouldn't call it experimental. It works great. I'd search google for a site detailing the

Re: [newbie] grub lilo

2003-10-26 Per discussione Heather/Femme
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:08:16 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIPPAGE For me the biggest is that if you make a config change, you don't have to run lilo. Just make your change and reboot. The other thing I like is that you can edit any boot stanza at runtime, meaning that if I

Re: [newbie] grub lilo

2003-10-26 Per discussione James Conner
On Sunday 26 October 2003 08:33 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: I've heard grub is experimental .. but RH uses it almost exclusively and alot of ppl say its better than LILO. True? False? I'd search google for a site detailing the differences Pros/cons of each but I don't kow where to start... I

Re: [newbie] Removing lilo

2003-09-21 Per discussione Scott
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 07:50, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:17:01 -0400 yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from man lilo snip - u [device-name] Uninstall lilo by copying the saved boot sector back. The '-s' and '-C' switches may be used with this option. The device-name

Re: [newbie] Removing lilo

2003-09-21 Per discussione Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:16 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 07:41 pm, Scott wrote: Hello I want to take a slave hard drive out of a box that I gave to my daughter and install it my box. The primary drive in her box has XP on it. How do I remove lilo from

Re: [newbie] Removing lilo

2003-09-21 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Sunday 21 September 2003 10:01 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:16 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 07:41 pm, Scott wrote: Hello I want to take a slave hard drive out of a box that I gave to my daughter and install it my box. The

Re: [newbie] Removing lilo

2003-09-21 Per discussione Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 21 September 2003 11:25 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 21 September 2003 10:01 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:16 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 07:41 pm, Scott wrote: Hello I want to take a slave hard drive out of a

Re: [newbie] Removing lilo

2003-09-20 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Saturday 20 September 2003 07:41 pm, Scott wrote: Hello I want to take a slave hard drive out of a box that I gave to my daughter and install it my box. The primary drive in her box has XP on it. How do I remove lilo from hda and turn booting back over to XP? Thanks, Scott Scott I

Re: [newbie] Removing lilo

2003-09-20 Per discussione yankl
On Saturday 20 September 2003 08:41 pm, Scott wrote: Hello I want to take a slave hard drive out of a box that I gave to my daughter and install it my box. The primary drive in her box has XP on it. How do I remove lilo from hda and turn booting back over to XP? Thanks, Scott from man

Re: [newbie] Removing lilo

2003-09-20 Per discussione Jason Greenwood
Yes, but you need to boot using a Win98 boot disk to do that AFAIK. So, get one, boot to a DOS prompt and the command you gave IS then correct. =) Cheers Jason Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 07:41 pm, Scott wrote: Hello I want to take a slave hard drive out of a box

[newbie] Aiuto LILO/Linux/Windows

2003-09-18 Per discussione Luca Tonin
Salve a tutti, avrei bisogno di aiuto riguardo a Linux. Ho un portatile Toshiba Satellite, con un disco rigido partizionato in questo modo: hda1--- Linux MAndrake 9.0 hda3--- Windows XP Professional Ho avuto la cattiva idea di reinstallare Windows nella sua partizione, ma da quello che ho

Re: [newbie] Aiuto LILO/Linux/Windows

2003-09-18 Per discussione Josenildo Marques
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:22, Luca Tonin wrote: Salve a tutti, avrei bisogno di aiuto riguardo a Linux. Ho un portatile Toshiba Satellite, con un disco rigido partizionato in questo modo: hda1--- Linux MAndrake 9.0 hda3--- Windows XP Professional Ho avuto la cattiva idea di reinstallare

Re: [newbie] using lilo to customize login

2003-01-19 Per discussione et
sure you can make a stanza in lilo.conf for that, or you can hit TAB and type lilo 3 with out the quotes for no startx On Saturday 18 January 2003 10:20 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: Being that graphical login and text login pertain to different system runlevels, it would be tricky at best - but

Re: [newbie] using lilo to customize login

2003-01-19 Per discussione et
consider passing the runlevels to the kernel in a lilo.conf stanza On Sunday 19 January 2003 12:49 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: Maybe we can control the start of the graphical interface within the script that start it at the proper run level Just a [y/n] question. can't we? If this is

Re: [newbie] using lilo to customize login

2003-01-19 Per discussione Adolfo Bello
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 10:47, et wrote: sure you can make a stanza in lilo.conf for that, or you can hit TAB and type lilo 3 with out the quotes for no startx What about the rest of services starting at runlevel 5? Like httpd, network, cups. __ / \\ @ ____@ Adolfo Bello

Re: [newbie] using lilo to customize login

2003-01-18 Per discussione Adolfo Bello
Being that graphical login and text login pertain to different system runlevels, it would be tricky at best - but there is a way to have a selection AFTER you've booted the kernel to allow for a text shell or a graphical shell. Just a wild guess. Remember that I am a newbie. Maybe we can

Re: [newbie] using lilo to customize login

2003-01-18 Per discussione Adolfo Bello
Maybe we can control the start of the graphical interface within the script that start it at the proper run level Just a [y/n] question. can't we? If this is possible, then we have almost the same flexibility. Just a wild guess. Well, instead of doing nothing I decided to trash my

[newbie] Getting LILO back after installing Win XP

2003-01-09 Per discussione George Baker
I've just installed Win XP onto my C: drive using NTFS. My second drive is partitioned into a D: drive with FAT 32 and the remaining 4 gigs has Mandrake 7.0. I've reinstalled Win 98 before but obviously the C: drive was then FAT 32. Using the MDK 7.0 boot CD and choosing upgrade I have always got

Re: [newbie] Getting LILO back after installing Win XP

2003-01-09 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 12:06 pm, George Baker wrote: I've just installed Win XP onto my C: drive using NTFS. My second drive is partitioned into a D: drive with FAT 32 and the remaining 4 gigs has Mandrake 7.0. I've reinstalled Win 98 before but obviously the C: drive was then FAT 32.

Re: [newbie] Getting LILO back after installing Win XP

2003-01-09 Per discussione Michael Adams
My understanding is that LILO only writes the MBR of hda. The MBR is not NTFS and it is separate from any partitions. You should be able to safely replace the MBR with LILO. I beleive your concern to be if lilo can pass control to the boot of the NTFS partition. I haven't heard anyone complain

Re: [newbie] Getting LILO back after installing Win XP

2003-01-09 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 23:06, George Baker wrote: I've just installed Win XP onto my C: drive using NTFS. My second drive is partitioned into a D: drive with FAT 32 and the remaining 4 gigs has Mandrake 7.0. I've reinstalled Win 98 before but obviously the C: drive was

Re: [newbie-it] LiLo Boot per Mandrake

2002-12-31 Per discussione Sandro Porrazzini
Il mar, 2002-12-31 alle 08:58, Felice Gaudente ha scritto: L'unica cosa che mi frena dal reinstallare il tutto è che nei precedenti tentativi mi è toccato anche rifare i Win.Forse mi incasino con le partizioni ed i filesystem... Per installazione per windows intendo l'opzione che dà (e non

Re: [newbie-it] LiLo Boot per Mandrake

2002-12-31 Per discussione Felice Gaudente
mi interessa eccome..vale sia per win2000 che per xp? grazie Franco [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sandro Porrazzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie_mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] LiLo Boot per Mandrake Date: 31 Dec 2002 09:58:43 +0100 Il mar, 2002-12-31

Re: [newbie-it] LiLo Boot per Mandrake

2002-12-31 Per discussione Sandro Porrazzini
Il mar, 2002-12-31 alle 10:21, Felice Gaudente ha scritto: mi interessa eccome..vale sia per win2000 che per xp? grazie Franco [EMAIL PROTECTED] Si vale sia per xp che per il 2000 Eccotelo, copiaincolato: RIPRISTINO DEL BOOT LOADER DI WIN2000 Se il computer supporta l'avvio da cd-rom,

[newbie-it] LiLo Boot per Mandrake

2002-12-30 Per discussione Felice Gaudente
Ciao a tutti, mi piacerebbe fare parte della vostra tribù...ma ho trovato qualche difficoltà. Ho un pc da un'annetto e sopra ci ho installato win2000pro,winxp e, visto che ho un'hard disk bello capiente (60Gb) e la necessità di imparare ad usare Linux anche x lavoro oltre che x gusto

Re: [newbie-it] LiLo Boot per Mandrake

2002-12-30 Per discussione Fabio Manunza
Alle 18:31, lunedì 30 dicembre 2002, Felice Gaudente ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, mi piacerebbe fare parte della vostra tribù...ma ho trovato qualche difficoltà. Ho un pc da un'annetto e sopra ci ho installato win2000pro,winxp e, visto che ho un'hard disk bello capiente (60Gb) e la necessità di

Re: [newbie-it] LiLo Boot per Mandrake

2002-12-30 Per discussione Felice Gaudente
: [newbie-it] LiLo Boot per Mandrake Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:41:21 +0100 Alle 18:31, lunedì 30 dicembre 2002, Felice Gaudente ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, mi piacerebbe fare parte della vostra tribù...ma ho trovato qualche difficoltà. Ho un pc da un'annetto e sopra ci ho installato win2000pro,winxp e

[newbie] CDROM Lilo entry?

2002-12-25 Per discussione Barry Michels
I noticed that there's a 'Boot from floppy' entry in lilo. Is there a way to add a 'Boot from CD' entry? I have an old laptop that can't boot from a CD. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie-it] Lilo

2002-12-12 Per discussione Tommy3
Scusate, ma come si fa ad eliminare Lilo? e se non si ha più linux? Grazie

Re: [newbie-it] Lilo

2002-12-12 Per discussione Sandro Porrazzini
Il ven, 2002-12-13 alle 01:04, Tommy3 ha scritto: Scusate, ma come si fa ad eliminare Lilo? e se non si ha più linux? Grazie fdisk /mbr Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Mandrake 9.0 on Pentium III - 733 Mhz Linux User # 203143 Linux Machine # 175781

[newbie-it] LILO Boot

2002-12-06 Per discussione Enrico Teotti
Ciao, ho cercato come molti di voi mi hanno detto di inserire le stringhe in /etc/lilo.conf per proporre il caricamento di w2k prof //linea di intestazione che non ricordo other = /dev/hdb1 table = /dev/hdb la voce viene aggiunta. Quando cerco di lanciarla, però ho un errore codice 0x01. E' di

Re: [newbie-it] LiLo

2002-11-22 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Alle 23:26, giovedì 21 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Alle 22:35, giovedì 21 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: mandarmi la configuarazione del suo LiLO così ricostruisco la sezione mancante? Ciao Grazie! Anche a Fabio. Daniele

[newbie-it] LiLo

2002-11-21 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Ciao, ho per errore rimosso una delle voci del menù di avvio di LiLo... qualcuno può, per cortesia, mandarmi la configuarazione del suo LiLO così ricostruisco la sezione mancante? GRAZIE! Daniele

[newbie] RE: lilo install

2002-11-18 Per discussione cannewilson
That's a possibility, John. I'll wait until Terry comes back on line later today, to see if he has worked out how to correct things. If he can't sort it I'll try your way - it does sound more promising. Why didn't I think of that? Anne -- Original Message -- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:25:10

Re: [newbie-it] Lilo e win

2002-03-14 Per discussione Andrea Celli
nicola wrote: l'installazione) oppure usando il cd di installazione, digitando la parola rescue2 e seguendo le procedure per montare il fs di root, in modo da poter il 2 era la seconda coppia di virgolette, immagino :-) Piu` precisamente: - avvii da CD - premi subito F1 - al

[newbie-it] Lilo e win

2002-03-13 Per discussione Luigi De Pascale
salve come faccio a rimettere lilo dopo che win se lo e' mangiato? Gigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata U.Dini Via Bonanno Pisano 25/B, 56126

Re: [newbie-it] Lilo e win

2002-03-13 Per discussione Germano
Come root digita lilo in un qualunque terminale, così facendo non dovrebbe far altro che riscrivere il contenuto del file /etc/lilo.conf nel Master Boot Record. Per sicurezza man lilo Ciao, Germano Il 15:31, mercoledì 13 marzo 2002, hai scritto: salve come faccio a rimettere lilo dopo che

Re: [newbie-it] lilo

2002-03-06 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Fabio Manunza wrote: Alle 19:22, martedì 5 marzo 2002, hai scritto: salve a tutti sul mio pc avevo sia win 2000 che mandrake 8.0 ho cancellato tutto per reistallare i due sistemi operativi ma alla partenza continua a partirmi lilo, come fare per eliminarlo? Da DOS un buon vecchio

[newbie-it] lilo

2002-03-05 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
salve a tutti sul mio pc avevo sia win 2000 che mandrake 8.0 ho cancellato tutto per reistallare i due sistemi operativi ma alla partenza continua a partirmi lilo, come fare per eliminarlo? se gli dico di partire da floppy mi da errore 0x80 sia con disco linux che win autopartenti.

Re: [newbie-it] lilo

2002-03-05 Per discussione Fabio Manunza
Alle 19:22, martedì 5 marzo 2002, hai scritto: salve a tutti sul mio pc avevo sia win 2000 che mandrake 8.0 ho cancellato tutto per reistallare i due sistemi operativi ma alla partenza continua a partirmi lilo, come fare per eliminarlo? Da DOS un buon vecchio fdisk /mbr e fai piazza

Re: [newbie] Edit lilo

2001-12-15 Per discussione David
On Saturday 15 December 2001 04:41, you wrote: I could use some help with two problems: 1.) How do I edit lilo.conf? I can find it in a console, but how do I open it and edit or change it? And, 2.) Is there an inherent problem with using a boo loader such as Lilo with Windows XP. Would it be

Re: [newbie] Edit lilo

2001-12-15 Per discussione Gerald Waugh
On Friday 14 December 2001 23:41, Robert L Sprowls wrote: I could use some help with two problems: 1.) How do I edit lilo.conf? I can find it in a console, try locate lilo.conf it's at /etc/lilo.conf but how do I open it and edit or change it? vi lilo.conf And, 2.) Is there an inherent

[newbie] Edit lilo

2001-12-14 Per discussione Robert L Sprowls
I could use some help with two problems: 1.) How do I edit lilo.conf? I can find it in a console, but how do I open it and edit or change it? And, 2.) Is there an inherent problem with using a boo loader such as Lilo with Windows XP. Would it be better to use a boot floppy with my other operating

RE: [newbie] Edit lilo

2001-12-14 Per discussione Franki
2001 12:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Edit lilo I could use some help with two problems: 1.) How do I edit lilo.conf? I can find it in a console, but how do I open it and edit or change it? And, 2.) Is there an inherent problem with using a boo loader such as Lilo with Windows XP

Re: [newbie] Edit lilo

2001-12-14 Per discussione Curt Tresenriter
You might want to read the three most recent issues of Lockergnome's Penguin Shell (subscribe at Lockergnome.com) , they've been about editing LILO. Hope it helps, Curt On Friday 14 December 2001 09:41 pm, you wrote: I could use some help with two problems: 1.) How do I edit lilo.conf? I

Re: [newbie-it] lilo

2001-12-11 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- From: ENx [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 10:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] lilo : No, veramente non mi riferivo ad Aurora!! Quando ho installato lilo gli : ho detto di visualizzare la schermata dove si selezionano i sistemi : operativi in 1024x768. Come

[newbie-it] lilo

2001-12-10 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qualcuno saprebbe dirmi se si puo` e come si fa a cambiare l'immagine di sfondo di lilo quando parte in modalita` grafica? Grazie ENx -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f Studi e lavori? Con LOL ti prepari da casa con l’assistenza on-line di un docente.

Re: [newbie-it] lilo

2001-12-10 Per discussione Fabio Manunza
: Monday, December 10, 2001 9:04 AM Subject: [newbie-it] lilo qualcuno saprebbe dirmi se si puo` e come si fa a cambiare l'immagine di sfondo di lilo quando parte in modalita` grafica? Grazie ENx -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f Studi e lavori? Con LOL ti

[newbie] Disabling lilo

2001-11-14 Per discussione Rich
Where do I go to temporarily disable lilo? I think that it's interfering with my attempt to reinstall WinNT. The install hangs up on the blue install screen. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Disabling lilo

2001-11-14 Per discussione Paul
In reply to Rich's words, written Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:49:38 -0500 Where do I go to temporarily disable lilo? I think that it's interfering with my attempt to reinstall WinNT. The install hangs up on the blue install screen. Make sure you have a working linux boot diskette. Boot MessyDOS. Run

Re: [newbie] LOLI LILO (long live lilo)

2001-11-13 Per discussione pesarif
not respond to any more emails from you. Regards, _nasturtium - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 6:41 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] LOLI LILO (long live lilo) It can and _will_ cause you great

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] LOLI LILO (long live lilo)

2001-11-13 Per discussione pesarif
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 02:35, Dan Butler wrote: If LILO is so damn great, why is GRUB so much easier to work with? Does a better job and is easier to manage. I believe in working smarter, not harder. Thus, I have to agree that LILO can be improved. I am sticking with Grub. And I work in the

Re: [newbie] LOLI LILO (long live lilo)

2001-11-04 Per discussione pesarif
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 8:42 PM Subject: [newbie] LOLI LILO (long live lilo) Hello, LILO can be placed in the Windows 2000 Boot menu! Using instructions at www.ntcompatible.com/faq2.shtml, (not reproduced here - they are designed with SuSE linux in mind which would

Re: [newbie] LOLI LILO (long live lilo)

2001-11-04 Per discussione _nasturtium
: Sunday, November 04, 2001 6:41 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] LOLI LILO (long live lilo) It can and _will_ cause you great harm. The next day, LILO got up to LIL- and wouldn't boot. It makes configuring LILO more difficult. It is hacky and dangerous. Causes more trouble than good. It is therefore

Re[2]: [newbie] LOLI LILO (long live lilo)

2001-11-04 Per discussione Onur Kucuk
Sunday, November 04, 2001, 9:41:46 AM, you wrote: pbc It can and _will_ cause you great harm. pbc The next day, LILO got up to LIL- and wouldn't boot. pbc It makes configuring LILO more difficult. pbc It is hacky and dangerous. pbc Causes more trouble than good. pbc It is therefore stupid.

[newbie] LOLI LILO (long live lilo)

2001-10-29 Per discussione _nasturtium
Hello, LILO can be placed in the Windows 2000 Boot menu! Using instructions at www.ntcompatible.com/faq2.shtml, (not reproduced here - they are designed with SuSE linux in mind which would not be appropraite on this list!), you can add it - and takes only 512bytes. [at a terminal] lilo -s

Re: [newbie] help~ lilo is gone~

2001-10-19 Per discussione Paul
In reply to Valerie Cheng's words, written Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:03:44 -0400 Hi Valerie, /boot is EMPTY?? Then somehow you managed to delete everything in there as root user. I am afraid you have to reinstall unless you have a backup. /boot contains all the kernels and such. But wait a few,

Re: [newbie] help~ lilo is gone~

2001-10-19 Per discussione michael
On Friday 19 October 2001 06:20 pm, you were observed remarking: In reply to Valerie Cheng's words, written Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:03:44 -0400 Hi Valerie, /boot is EMPTY?? Then somehow you managed to delete everything in there as root user. I am afraid you have to reinstall unless you have

Re: [newbie] help~ lilo is gone~

2001-10-19 Per discussione Valerie Cheng
ok.. The situation was.. My friend found the iso of WinXP.. So I tried installing that.. And I guess WinXP killed lilo.. But I kinda expected that so I had my Linux boot disk ready to use that to come back to linux and run lilo to install it back... And that's what I did... and it acted wierd

Re: [newbie] help~ lilo is gone~

2001-10-19 Per discussione Valerie Cheng
Thanks everyone for helping me out. :) My lilo is back alive. :) (and I'm never gonna touch ms windows again...) Valerie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re[2]: [newbie] help~ lilo is gone~

2001-10-19 Per discussione Onur Kucuk
Hi, Please help me... My LILO disappeared.. and when I run lilo to install it, it says that /boot/boot.b is missing... I checked is /boot and it's empty... what do I do??? *sniff sniff* Any help is appreciated~ Valerie Hi Valerie, How could you boot, with the boot empty ? Or didnt you

[newbie] help~ lilo is gone~

2001-10-19 Per discussione Valerie Cheng
Hi, Please help me... My LILO disappeared.. and when I run lilo to install it, it says that /boot/boot.b is missing... I checked is /boot and it's empty... what do I do??? *sniff sniff* Any help is appreciated~ Valerie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] help~ lilo is gone~

2001-10-19 Per discussione Texstar
What you can do is to put in your cd1 and reinstall the lilo.rpm with the --force command rpm -Uvh --force lilo-21.7.5-1mdk.i586.rpm (or whatever version you are using) This will install /boot/boot.b /boot/chain.b etc into the boot directory. You may also need to install the kernel again if

Re: [newbie] Chose LiLO Graphic mode on boot - it hangs, sort of.

2001-10-01 Per discussione skinky
On Monday 01 October 2001 20:34, Bradley D. Thornton wrote: during the last stage of installation I chose Lilo graphics mode on boot and the system appears to hang saying, Starting X Font Server. I can ssh in just fine but even when I kill xfs it remains. I have no virtual consoles or

[newbie] grub/lilo problem

2001-09-02 Per discussione ivan miranda
Hi all, I had installed a new Quantum SCSI 36gb harddisk with adapatec scsi card.The partion i made is as below sda1 7gb(fat32) sda2 50mb(ext2) sda3 50mb(ext2) sda5 50mb(ext2) sda6 300mb(swap) sda7 6gb (ext2) sda8 7gb (ext2) sda9 6gb (ext2) sda10 8gb (fat32) I was able

[newbie] Graphic LiLo Gone

2001-09-02 Per discussione Neville Cobb
SInce upgrading to md freq3 my graphical lilo has been replaced with the text one and I can't get it back even through using the mandrake control center. Is there a file that I can tweak to get it back? Nev Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Change lilo/grub default boot - needs to be windoze for now!

2001-08-06 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Dave Esquer wrote: Hello all, While I'm debugging my Mandrake 8 install, I still need to get some windoze work done and would like the default lilo boot to be windows. I edited the linux.conf file to have the default be windows instead of linux but it still boots me into Mandrake. I'm

Re: [newbie] Change lilo/grub default boot - needs to be windoze for now!

2001-08-06 Per discussione etharp
hmmm... do you think editting the lilo.conf might be a better file to edit (GRIN) there are settings in the control center to set if LILO or GRUB and if you want Aurora On Monday 06 August 2001 16:57, Dave Esquer wrote: Hello all, While I'm debugging my Mandrake 8 install, I still need to

Re: [newbie-it] LILO

2001-07-06 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Alessandro Rocca wrote: ... Purtroppo in modalità rescue non riesco a dare il comando lilo... quale errore ti da'? perche' forse dopo aver montato il disco potrresti dover dare un chroot. Aehm... effettivamente non ho montato l'hd su quale ho Linux... Controlla prima

R: R: [newbie-it] LILO

2001-07-05 Per discussione luca laghi
Purtroppo in modalità rescue non riesco a dare il comando lilo... In che senso non riesci a dare il comando lilo? Forse to basta andare nella directory in cui si trova il programma lilo e dare ./.lilo. Luca

Re: [newbie-it] LILO

2001-07-05 Per discussione freefred
On Thursday 05 July 2001 17:10, you wrote: Aehm... effettivamente non ho montato l'hd su quale ho Linux... Con mount /dev/... mi dice che non riesce a trovare in fstab l'hda... Che accade? come e' visto il disco o la partzione che vorresti montare? (hda1, hda2 ecc.) che comando dai?

Re: R: [newbie-it] LILO

2001-07-05 Per discussione Alessandro
Secondary Master? C'è modo di utilizzarlo su un comp diverso da quello su cui è stato creato? HELP!!! credo proprio di no, perche' il floppy di boot e' legato alla tabella di partizioni del sistema su cui e' stato creato (tantoc he andrebbe aggiornato ad ogni variazione della tabella stessa)

Re: R: [newbie-it] LILO

2001-07-04 Per discussione Alessandro Rocca
From: Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: R: [newbie-it] LILO Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 14:23:47 +0200 Ho riguardarto meglio. C'e` un'apposita opzione lilo -r per ripristinare la situazione precedente. Purtroppo in modalità rescue non

Re: R: [newbie-it] LILO

2001-07-04 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Andrea Celli wrote: Come posso fare per rimettere LILO al posto suo? Non è una cosa che mi sia mai capitata, ma penso che il comando LILO, lanciato senza alcun flag, vada a riscrivere nell'MBR (che sta per master boot record) le informazioni necessarie, riportate, vado a memoria,

Re: [newbie] Editing Lilo boot menu

2001-06-14 Per discussione Terry
Thanks to everyone that helped. After going to a prompt and running LILO, my boot menu updated just nicely. Thanks again! On Wednesday 13 June 2001 10:52, you wrote: Folks, I'm having trouble removing old entries in my LILO boot menu. I went through lilo.conf and manually removed the

[newbie] Editing Lilo boot menu

2001-06-13 Per discussione Terry
Folks, I'm having trouble removing old entries in my LILO boot menu. I went through lilo.conf and manually removed the entries, but they still remain when I boot the machine up. Anywhere else I need to look? -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician / Asst. Network Administrator University of Virginia

Re: [newbie] Editing Lilo boot menu

2001-06-13 Per discussione Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 15:52, Terry wrote: Folks, I'm having trouble removing old entries in my LILO boot menu. I went through lilo.conf and manually removed the entries, but they still remain when I boot the machine up. Anywhere else I need to look? After editing /etc/lilo.conf you

[newbie-it] Lilo al posto di Grub

2001-05-21 Per discussione pacmo
Per eliminare grub ed evitare casini le alternative sono le seguenti : installare lilo e questo automaticamente elimina grub ? Da prompt di dos : Fdisk/MBR ? Notare bene che ho winme e quindi non posso fare il boot da dos, ma solo da disco di ripristino funziona ugualmente anche su ME ? Grazie

[newbie] lost lilo

2001-05-18 Per discussione marshall weber
Hi folks, I just upgraded to Mandrake 8.0 from 7.2. I can no longer dual boot between linux and Win 98. No lilo. How do I get the lilo back? Thanks. Marshall

Re: [newbie] lost lilo

2001-05-18 Per discussione Todd Flinders
edit /etc/lilo.conf to include windows 98. Then run /sbin/lilo See this page for details: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/iboot.html --- marshall weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I just upgraded to Mandrake 8.0 from 7.2. I can no longer dual boot between linux and Win

[newbie] Re: lilo/grub problem

2001-03-13 Per discussione Ari Toivola
You had the problem with lilo boot. You have to set the lilo parameters right and write to right drive. As you told, you have windows in first drive, assumed /dev/hda, and linux in second, /dev/hdb. You need to go in linuxconf and write lilo in the second drive, /dev/hdb. I had also problems when

Re: [newbie] Made LILO mistake -- Please Help

2001-03-09 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Jack Gillis wrote: I just made a mistake in installing. I forgot to tell the installer to put LILO in hda7, my boot, partition. It went into the MBR and that messed up my IBM Boot Manager. I got that straightened out with fdisk /newmbr but now I need to get LILO onto hda7 so Linux will

Re: [newbie] Made LILO mistake -- Please Help

2001-03-09 Per discussione Jack Gillis
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 01:27:38 -0800, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Yes! and thank you very much. Jackedit (as root) the first line of /etc/lilo.conf to read: boot=/dev/hda7 and save it. Then in console mode as root, execute lilo, like this: /sbin/lilo -v

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