Re: Lilo and CDROM
On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Chris Trantau wrote:
> I have to boot off of my rescue disk because my lilo wont work. When i try
> to go to
> the Boot of the Hard Disk option it gives me this error:
>
> sbin/dinstall: cannot creat /target/etc/lilo.cong: directory
> nonexistent
The partition has to be mounted. I seem to remember that the 1.2 rescue
disk has an option to mount without reinitializing the partition.
>
> How do i fix this? I dont know many commands. Also when i boot off of my
> rescue
> disk (its the only way i can get in unless i set my Linux partition as
> bootable but i
> need access to my win95) it loads up hundreds of drivers that dont work.
>
I may get flamed for saying this:
If your system boots w95, create a boot floppy for Linux. W95 is garbage
and sometimes needs to be reinstalled. When you reinstall it, it will
overwrite your lilo boot. I had it setup to boot Linux unless I typed
"w95" within 10 seconds. This seemed to create problems when I wanted to
restart w95 in "dos" mode. I hardly ever use w95, so I leave the linux
boot floppy in the drive. It's not a big problem because Linux doesn't
have to be rebooted after every 2 or 3 internet sessions like 95 does.
You can create one using the rescue disk. I think you should do this
and test it before you do anything else.
> for each thing...like 5 for the CD ROM but none of them work, is this
> normal? Even
> when my linux was booting off of the hard drive it did this. It took over
> 3 minutes to
> load.
> I can't install any packages because I cant mount my CD-ROM. I tried:
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom/ ( and many others)
Make sure you only select one CD-ROM from the device drivers. This is
available from the rescue disk. If the system is booted it is the modconf
command. The iso9660 support is also selected this way. If you have
unecessary drivers selected, it will take a long time to boot.
Paul Wade - Greenbush Technologies Corporation
http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html
Linux CD's sent worldwide
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