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Fix LILO?
I installed http://www.bastille-linux.org/ via apt-get and it worked great in securing my laptop.
But, when configuring Bastille, it must have done something to LILO, cause I didn't receive a boot prompt for my OS (Knoppix and XP) when rebooting.
I found this in the forums while searching,
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...highlight=lilo, but I want to be very careful and not hose anything up further.
Here is my question.
1. Bott of Knoppix CD
2. mount your HD knoppix partition
Knoppix resides on HDA3, so I have to mount this correct?
3. Open root shell and type : chroot /mnt/hda2 <enter>
Does HDA only apply to this example?
4. Type lilo <enter>
5. Reboot computer
thanks
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You would also have to edit your /etc/lilo.conf on your install and remove the comment in front of the prompt line and make sure there is also a delay=100 line which would give you a delay of 10 seconds before boot.
So the steps would be:
1. Boot Cd
2. Open root shell
3. mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3
4. Edit /mnt/hda3/etc/lilo.conf and save file
5. chroot /mnt/hda3/ /sbin/lilo -v
6. Reboot and hope Bastille likes the changes
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Originally Posted by
Stephen
You would also have to edit your /etc/lilo.conf on your install and remove the comment in front of the prompt line and make sure there is also a delay=100 line which would give you a delay of 10 seconds before boot.
So the steps would be:
1. Boot Cd
2. Open root shell
3. mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3
4. Edit /mnt/hda3/etc/lilo.conf and save file
5. chroot /mnt/hda3/ /sbin/lilo -v
6. Reboot and hope Bastille likes the changes
I've tried the steps above, but didn't have any success with it.
The output that it did create a prompt for Linux, but when rebooting, I didn't get a prompt for XP/Knoppix.
Please advise.
thanks
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try press the control key or the alt key.
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Originally Posted by
JockVSJock
I've tried the steps above, but didn't have any success with it.
The output that it did create a prompt for Linux, but when rebooting, I didn't get a prompt for XP/Knoppix.
Please advise.
thanks
You did make sure when you were editing the lilo.conf that the sections for the Linux and XP boot options were there uncommented also? Could you boot from the CD or HD and post the lilo.conf from your machine so we can look at it.
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Originally Posted by
garyng
try press the control key or the alt key.
Hmmm...that worked...but why?
Any more info. to help out this curious soul would be awesome.
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I don't understand why the designer of lilo choose it that way, giving a clueless prompt and wait for the user to press the said key to present the menu. This is very confusing IMO and doesn't help in promoting linux to the public.
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you should add a "-o dev,suid" to the mount command
mount -o suid,dev /dev/hdxx /mnt/hdxx
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