Lilo warnings about device-mapper

[brodders]

Hi,

Got an oddity. Done a poor-mans install to an HD, yet when I add info re Windows for dual-booting I get lilo errors and - through the partition is listed on next boot - boot Windows it does not.

Hardware is Asus AMD nForce2 mb. All works fine using the live CD.

HD layout is a bit odd, due to evil WD disk refusing to be a Master. Anyhow I've got:

hda - LG combo CDROM/DVD/CDRW
hdb - WD 80g HD (Windows98SE) Boot via MBR
hdc - Maxtor 10g HD - Knoppix 3.6 Boot via MBR
hdd - empty

Installed Knoppix 3.6 with 2.6 series kernel to hdc. BIOS is set to boot hdc 1st. Knoppix runs fine from HD. With hdc (Knoppix) HD removed, Windows by itself gets booted fine; so we know both HD's are happy and bootable.

Added Windows thus to lilo.conf as root, giving:

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="Linux"
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off nomce vsync=95 screen=1280x1024 lang=uk"
read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27
label="Linux(2.4)-1"
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.4.27
append="ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off nomce v
sync=95 screen=1280x1024 lang=uk"
read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7
label="Linux(2.6)-2"
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.7
append="ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off nomce vsync=95
screen=1280x1024 lang=uk"
read-only

other=/dev/hdb1
label="Win98SE"

lilo then throws errors as this cut/paste from console shows:

root@asus4box:/etc# lilo
/dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device
Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
/dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device
Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
Incompatible libdevmapper 1.00.19-ioctl (2004-07-03)(compat) and kernel driver
Added Linux *
Added Linux(2.4)-1
Added Linux(2.6)-2
Added Win98SE

On reboot, Debian boot splash shows all these bootable areas & will boot Linux default fine.

Asking it to boot Win98SE results in a blank screen for 3-4 seconds, then in top LH corner the message:

Loading Win98SE

and that's it. Hangs forever.


Hows do I fix this one??

Thanks!
brodders

[shah]

Open root konsole and edit /etc/lilo.conf:

other=/dev/hdb1
label="Win98SE"
table=/dev/hdb

save and run lilo ( to update ).

[brodders]

Hi shah...

Thanks for the table suggestion!

...alas makes no difference. It almost seems like the disk is somehow failing the boot sequence.

What is lilo going to do which is different from a normal Win98 MBR boot??

Thanks

brodders

[shah]

One thing I see in your lilo is missing line :
boot=/dev/hdb *on top of lilo
and
root=/dev/hdc*x *x=your linux partition number
ex:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27
label="Linux(2.4)-1"
root=/dev/hdc*x
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.4.27
append="ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off nomce v
sync=95 screen=1280x1024 lang=uk"
read-only

Your WD HD don't like to share cable with your cdrom, that's why it cannot be a master....fetish?
You can move the cdrom to second ide an turn it as slave.

[brodders]

Aha!


Put those changes in and - No change at all (that's with extra lilo boot & root parameters).

Not too surprised as apart from the Win98SE stuff the rest is auto-generated during Knoppix HD install. Unhelpfully, I've not posted all the lilo.conf text as it has a _lot_ of verbage.

Hm. I'm suspecting now the WD as being even more evil then expected. Perhaps put in another drive in it's place?

WD fetish about cable sharing? worse, it refuses to be recognised in BIOS if it is a Master (other ide device or no). It's slave or nothing! I've seen 2 WD's like this; there was a bout of them a year or so ago I suspect, as others mentioned this around the web. Never seen a drive like it (& I've not bought any more). Seemed to vary by mb manufacturer so must be subtle firmware / timing / chipset thing. Perhaps.

I'll try an old IBM Deskstar as hdb and see what happens..... let you know.

Thanks!

[shah]

If nothing work then it's time for you to move to grub.