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Old 02-23-2002, 01:49 PM   #1
jim_boy
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Angry lilo booting from cdrom


Hello,


After running a while on RH 6.2, I wanna startover with RH 7.2 . The problem is that bootdisks don't work and my old pentium can't boot from cdrom.

So i'm trying to configure lilo that it gets his image from cdrom ...
With not much of succes..

Is there anybody who know's how to do this ???

Thanks in advance..

J.maenen@home.nl
 
Old 02-23-2002, 05:01 PM   #2
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I am not well versed with LILO knowledge, but as far as I know, if u want to load boot image from cdrom, try using /dev/<whatever device your cdrom comes up for> in lilo.conf where it specifies the location of the boot image.
 
Old 02-24-2002, 07:32 AM   #3
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When defining in lilo
image=/dev/hdb/dosutils/autoboot/vmlinux
label = blbal
root =/dev/hdb


Lilo says
open /dev......../vmlinux : Not a directory
or
open /cdrom/dosutils/autoboot/vmlinux No such file or dir

Ofcourse vmlinux is there


any suggestions ???
 
Old 02-24-2002, 10:18 AM   #4
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Quote:
Originally posted by jim_boy
open /cdrom/dosutils/autoboot/vmlinux No such file or dir
This will definitely not work because /cdrom isn't mounted yet.

I suggest you look up the documentation of GRUB to see if replacing LILO by GRUB can help. GRUB certainly has more functionality than LILO.

Also, take a look here: http://syslinux.zytor.com/iso.php
 
  


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