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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,926

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Gone & broke lilo...

Right I have added a Sata drive to my system

Bios boots it first

Added lilo

boot=/dev/sda
default=Arch
timeout=50
lba32
prompt

image=/boot/vmlinuz26
        label=Arch
        vga=791
        root=/dev/sda3
        initrd=/boot/initrd26-full.img
        read-only

Now its dropping out at reduced shell

errr

/dev/sda1 /boot
/dev/sda2  /var
/dev/sda3 /root
/dev/sda4 /home

maybe I need to add something to get /boot & / mounted ??

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Mr Green

Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,926

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Re: Gone & broke lilo...

Bump

I am trying to get system to boot via my other drive but adding sats to lilo.conf

only Its complaining

Fatal: Illegal 'root=' specification: /dev/sda3/

did not think setting up sata would be much different to ide ... only now I think of if .... added sata support in mkinitrd.conf (ran mkinird auto!) still get same error

#
# /etc/lilo.conf
#

boot=/dev/hda
# This line often fixes L40 errors on bootup
# disk=/dev/discs/disc0/disc bios=0x80

default=Arch
timeout=50
lba32
prompt

image=/boot/vmlinuz26
        label=Arch
        vga=791
        root=/dev/hda1
        initrd=/boot/initrd26.img
        read-only

image=/mnt/sda1/boot/vmlinuz26
        label=Arch
        vga=791
        root=/dev/sda3/
        initrd=/mnt/sda1/boot/initrd26.img
        read-only

wondered if udev mounting partition (thinks they are pendrives!!!) would cause a problem

:?

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Mr Green

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Gone & broke lilo...

Try removing the last backslash in the root line:
root=/dev/sda3

Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,926

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Re: Gone & broke lilo...

:oops: doh!

Dude I was like too much in a hurry to get it working ....

had to take out /boot/ as well as /boot is on sda1 ....

fingers crossed

thanks man!

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Mr Green