Re: [FYI] lilo can not parse compact
I can confirm that lilo ran successfully when I changed
root=
to
root=/dev/hda6
I had thought that lilo was supposed to default correctly with a blank, but
I guess not.
So this looks to be more a bug with the setup of lilo.conf at initial
system creation (I suppose that
it uses liloconfig) than with lilo itself.
So there seem to be 3 possibilities, which I will list in decreasing
likelihood:
1) there is a bug in the setup of lilo.conf (which is either for
boot-floppy or liloconfig to fix)
2) while "lightly editing" lilo.conf I accidentally deleted the material
after root=
3) lilo is supposed to handle root= correctly.
I ran the install off boot floppies (2.2.3). I got the base system off my
hard disk.
When asked about handling of the boot, I said I did not want to make the
system boot automatically
(i.e., no writes to the MBR of the disk). My root and boot are the same.
At 01:17 AM 1/2/00 +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>* "Ross" == Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
>
>Ross> # Generated by liloconfig
>
>Ross> root=
>
>Ross> # Enables map compaction:
>Ross> COMPACT
>
>Now you wrote:
>
>>>> After lightly editing /etc/lilo.conf (I set boot=/dev/hda6 and put
>>>> video to extended) I ran lilo.
>>>> It failed with the error message
>>>> Not a Number "compact"
>
>Looks like an obvious error doesn't it?
>
>Ciao,
> Martin
>
>
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