Re: fatal error on RH partition

[Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu>]

on Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:33:01AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez insinuated:
>  --- Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> escribió: > on Wed, 18 Jun 2003
> 10:29:19PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez insinuated:
> > >  --- Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> escribió:  
> > > > i get an error about booting though:
> > > > 
> > > > spycellar:~# chroot /mnt lilo -b /dev/hda5
> > > > Ignoring entry 'boot'
> > > > Fatal: open /boot/boot.b: No such file or directory
> > > > 
> > > > this seems to be related to my earlier problem, though i'm not sure
> > > > what to do about it ...
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Post your /etc/lilo.conf from /dev/hda5
> > 
> > spycellar:~# cat /mnt/etc/lilo.conf 
> > boot=/dev/hda
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > prompt
> > timeout=50
> > message=/boot/message
> > linear
> > default=linux-new
> > 
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
> >         label=linux
> >         read-only
> >         root=/dev/hda5
> > 
> > image=/boot/bzImage
> >         label=linux-new
> >         read-only
> >         root=/dev/hda5
> > 
> > other=/dev/hda1
> >         label=dos
> > 
> > </nori>
> > 
> 
> Comment out (or remove) the boot= and install= lines and try runing
> lilo again through chroot.

almost the same error:  

spycellar:~# chroot /mnt lilo -b /dev/hda5
Fatal: open /boot/boot.b: No such file or directory

i tried it twice; they're definitely commented out.

</nori>

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