[Techtalk] Lilo error message
Anne Wainwright
anotheranne at fables.co.za
Wed Jul 30 21:38:48 UTC 2008
Hi, Michelle,
I have been sleeping on this one, read below.
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:52:04 +0200
Michelle wrote:
|> Hello Anne,
|>
|> Am 2008-07-02 22:37:32, schrieb Anne Wainwright:
|> > Hi, again, :)
|>
|> Mee toooooooooooooo...........
|>
|> > On an old dosbox I have dual boot linux. my very first! I use it to boot
|> > into linux to connect to the network so I can move some files over.
|> > Debian potatoe version, terminal only, no GUI.
|> Potato
|> Pomme de Terre
|> Erdapfel
|> Kartoffel
Aartappel
|>
|> > I made a small change to the liloconf file (to put up a message at boot
|> > time). I then ran lilo as proper after any changes and got the
|> > message:
|>
|> So you have set
|>
|> install=menu
actually it says
install=/boot/boot.b
stranger and stranger, the item that i changed (added) was
message=1 for linux or 3 for dos
(idea was to give a prompt for the clueless slave working on that machine under Dos)
(idea was to give a prompt without touching anything)
and when I push Tab I get
Dos 1 Linux 3
odd because the options are most definitely set the other way around, 3 for Dos and 1 for Linux, I use it often enough to know that without even looking. I made a list of all the uncommented settings
lba32
boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda2
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
message=1 for Linux ....... as above
prompt
single-key
delay=20
timout=120
vga=normal
default=Dos
and of course the option Dos and Linux loading sections. Really, none of this has been touched that I am aware of, only the message was added. Just thought, I'll take the line out and report back, sensible thing to do.
bestest
Anne
|>
|> Behhhh, - Anne, this works only in Woody and higher. For "Slink" and
|> "Potato" you must use the full path like:
|>
|> install=/boot/menu
|>
|> > Fatal: open 1: No such file or directory
|>
|> Lilo from Potato require the path. :-)
|>
|> ----[ manpage 'lilo.conf' ]---------------------------------------------
|> LILO.CONF(5) LILO.CONF(5)
|>
|> NAME
|> lilo.conf - configuration file for lilo
|> <snip>
|> install=<user-interface>
|> Selects the user interface which will be seen at boot
|> time. One of the following three options may be speci-
|> fied: text, menu, or bmp. The traditional LILO inter-
|> face is 'text'; but 'menu' is now the default, unless
|> the configurtion file contains the 'bitmap=' specifica-
|> tion. The text interface is strictly a command-line
|> interface as though the console were a dumb terminal.
|> The menu interface is a text-based screen of the boot
|> choices, with the option to enter additional command
|> line parameters. And the bmp interface is a menu pre-
|> sented against a graphic screen, specified as a 640x480
|> BitMaP file of 16 or 256 colors. (See the 'lilo -E'
|> switch for editing options).
|>
|> (Prior to LILO version 22.3, 'install=' specified the
|> user interface as a file in the '/boot' directory.)
|> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
|>
|> And since you are using Potato with an outdated LILO version prior to
|> 22.3...
|>
|> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
|> Michelle Konzack
|> Systemadministrator
|> 24V Electronic Engineer
|> Tamay Dogan Network
|> Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
|>
|>
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so much to do, so little time :(
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