Hey,

Please help me! I'm installing gentoo on a laptop and I'm having real problems. Everything has gone well until the LILO setup.

When I formatted the hard drive to make it ready for the install (it was previously a windows install and partitioned with partition magic) the partition table looked like:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 * 1 5 40131 83 Linux
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part2 6 42 297202+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part3 43 1502 11727450 83 Linux
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part4 1503 2432 7470225 7 HPFS/NTFS

Now, I'm setting up lilo. First I tried my lilo.conf like this:

boot=/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1
prompt
timeout=50
default=gentoo
vga=788

image=/boot/kernel-2.6.4
label=gentoo
read-only
root=/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part3
append="hdc=ide-scsi"

And got the error: Fatal: raid_setup: stat("/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1")

Then I tried:

boot=/dev/hda
prompt
timeout=50
default=gentoo
vga=788

image=/boot/kernel-2.6.4
label=gentoo
read-only
root=/dev/hda3
append="hdc=ide-scsi"

And got the error: Fatal: open /dev/hda: Read-only file system

If I do fdisk:
"
livecd linux # fdisk -l
livecd linux #
"
it tells me that I don't have anything!! This isn't too surprising I guess, considering that the installation is not yet finished.


What can I do to sort this out? I need to find out what hard drive the installation is on. I have never installed on a lappy before. I just assumed that the hard drive would be /dev/hda, but it seems not to be.

Please help, this is really frustrating!!

thanks
Hamish

I'm guessing the cd is hda ( the read-only), and the hd is hdc (the bus1 instead of bus0)... you can try 'boot=/dev/hdc'.

hey.

yeah, I have just done that! Now the only errors I get are:

livecd linux # lilo
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
Name change: '/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/disc' -> '/dev/hdc'
The kernel was compiled with DEVFS_FS, but 'devfs=mount' was omitted
as a kernel command-line boot parameter; hence, the '/dev' directory
structure does not reflect DEVFS_FS device names.
Added gentoo *

Is this a major problem?

Hamish

Fixed!

The problem was that, while I had changed the root= to /dev/hdc3, I had left append="hdc=scsi-ide". This meant that linux thought that my HD was scsi emulation.

This was fixed by correcting it to append="hda=ide-sci"

Hamish