Hello,

Where can I find how to use Lilo on the 6.5 book instead of using Grub.

Roelof

"man lilo" if it is installed, or Google.

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oke,

Now find out where I can download the soutce of lilo.
Every site I found (google) doesn't have it.

Roelof

Well, I didn't have any problem locating it using Google: "lilo source". I found it at: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo/. I'm surprised that the book doesn't have information about it.

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Hi,

@penguiniator: Lilo isn't part of LFS (it was way back, version 3 if I remember correctly).

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Does it need to be in order to use it on LFS?

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@penguiniator: I'm not sure I understand the question.

You can use lilo instead of grub if you want, it is just that the LFS team decided to start using grub at a certain point. I had to use lilo on my MacPro (grub wasn't playing nice with EFI at the time). It worked like a charm.

I used the binary package (unpack from the root dir, configure, run and all is good to go). You could keep in the spirit of LFS and compile it yourself, you do need some extra dependencies which are not part of the current LFS versions, check the install documentation that comes with the package to see which.

Hope this clears things up.

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Well, I'm not the one that needs the information, but at least the op is within earshot, right?

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Hi.

The OP should have all the info he needs, that is correct!

One more piece of information: I installed lilo after the last package was installed (that would be vim 7.2 in LFS 6.6), and I did not (maybe too obvious) install grub at all.

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Hello

I installed Lilo without any problems in a chrooted enviroment.

Then I made a lilo.conf which look like this

boot /dev/hdc1
delay 0

image /boot/lfskernel-2.6.22.5
label=linux
root=/dev/hdc3
read-only.

But when I do sbin/lilo I get a message that lilo is not installed with as reason a raid-device.
But I don't have raid.

Also Grub is complaining that in the chrooted envirioment grub can't reconigze any disk..

Anyone tips ?

Roelof

Hi,

I'm not familiar with your partition setup, but shouldn't these 2 be the same:

boot /dev/hdc1
root=/dev/hdc3

Or are / and /boot separate partitions? If not both should read either /dev/hdc1 or /dev/hdc3 (the device you created in 2.3 and is mounted as $LFS - /mnt/lfs)

If that doesn't solve the problems:

Where in the book did you install and configure lilo? If you haven't tried already you might want to re-enter the chrooted environment as shown in chapter 6.62 (that is assuming you finished chapter 6!! If not finish it first) and do lilo's configure steps again.

Hope this helps.

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Hello,

Yes, youre right.
I have everything on 1 partition. I was confused with a gentoo-setup I once used.

I configured Lilo on my own because in the 6.5 book I couldn't find anything about lilo only about grub.
I configured this way :
untar the lilo tarball.
Make a lilo.conf
run /sbin/lilo

Roelof

Hello,

I changed the boot and root to /dev/hdc2 where I installed my LFS system.
But still this message FATAL: raid_setup: stat ("/dev/hdc2").

And I found out that /dev is almost empty on shm and sysfs.

Roelof

Hi,

You need to give a bit more information:

1) At what stage/chapter in the book are you?
- Did you finish everything or is there still stuff to do.

2) In post #10 you mention this: Also Grub is complaining that in the chrooted envirioment grub can't reconigze any disk..
- I do hope you mean lilo and not grub. Or did you install both (which I told you not to do in post #9)?

3) When are you getting the FATAL message?
- During boot or when you run /sbin/lilo or .....

4) What do your fstab and lilo.conf look like?
- I'm talking about the ones from the LFS setup, not your host.

5) Which steps did you exactly take to get to this error message?
- Did you do these steps before re-configuring/running lilo:
- Remount -> Section 6.2.2, “Mounting and Populating /dev”
- Remount -> Section 6.2.3, “Mounting Virtual Kernel File Systems”
- re-enter the chrooted environment as stated in 6.62

6) Did you configure your kernel correctly?
- This is only of interest if you finished LFS and are trying to boot it.

1) At what stage/chapter in the book are you?
- Did you finish everything or is there still stuff to do.

Am im at the last chapter of the book where you have to install the bootloader. If that's a succes then everything of the book is done.

2) In post #10 you mention this: Also Grub is complaining that in the chrooted envirioment grub can't reconigze any disk..
- I do hope you mean lilo and not grub. Or did you install both (which I told you not to do in post #9)?

I installed both, Im sorry. I will try to delete grub from the system

3) When are you getting the FATAL message?
- During boot or when you run /sbin/lilo or .....

I get the message when I run /sbin/lilo.

4) What do your fstab and lilo.conf look like?

Fstab :

/dev/hdc2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdc1 swap swap pri=1 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=3, mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

lilo.conf :

boot=/dev/hdc2
delay=0

image=/boot/lfskernel-2.6.22.3
root=/dev/hdc2
label=linux
read-only

5) Which steps did you exactly take to get to this error message?

1. Restart computer and boot from LiveCD
2. Mount your lfs partition
export LFS=/mnt/lfs
mkdir -pv $LFS
mount /dev/sda2 $LFS
3. Mount your swap partition (skip this step if you do not use any swap
partitions)
swapon /dev/sda1
4. Mount the virtual kernel filesystems
mount -vt proc proc $LFS/proc
mount -vt sysfs sysfs $LFS/sys
5. Entering the chroot environment
chroot "$LFS" /usr/bin/env -i \
HOME=/root TERM="$TERM" PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin \
/bin/bash --login
6. Populating /dev
mount -nvt tmpfs none /dev
mkdir -v /dev/pts
mkdir -v /dev/shm
mount -vt devpts -o gid=4,mode=620 none /dev/pts
mount -vt tmpfs none /dev/shm
7. Entering your working directory
cd /sources



6) Did you configure your kernel correctly?
- This is only of interest if you finished LFS and are trying to boot it.

I hope so otherwise have to do these steps again.


Roelof