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lilo wont install to harddisk
Hi,
I have both windows XP (hda1) and Linux (hda5) running on my laptop. I would like to install lilo on hda5 and use NT loader to boot into either OS. I have boot of the laptop using Knoppix CD, however when I try to install lilo onto /dev/hda5, I have receive the following error:
Fatal: create /boot/map~: Read-only file system
I have search through the forum along with other site to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.
P.S. I have mounted the file system and have no problem read/write to it.
mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5
lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda5
dealy=10
ramdisk=0
root=/dev/hda5
image=vmlinuz
initrd=initrd
label=linux
Thanks in advance
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A little more information on my progress so far. I have created:
/mnt/hda5/etc/lilo.conf
/mnt/hda5/dev
/mnt/hda5/boot
Run the following command:
lilo -v -r /mnt/hda5
NOW, I have received the following error:
Fatal: raid_setup: stat("/dev/hda5")
Not sure what this error is referring to, I have no raid setup on the laptop. It just a simple single drive with two partion.
Anyone with any suggestion?
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I had the exact same problem.
It turned out to be that my lilo.conf was munged and didn't have a initrd option in it.
What I did is add:
initrd=/initrd.img
to my /vmlinuz block of my lilo.conf.
ALSO when I was trying to fix my lilo.conf from a debian boot disk I read there was some problem with running lilo in chroot.
So I mounted the broken partitions to /target and did a chroot to /target and ran lilo and it fixed everything.
Hopefully this will help someone!!
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