I'm having a problem getting LILO installed.
I installed Slackware 10.2
boot: sata.i
Formatting:
Code:
SATA 0
1 * /sda2 /winxp 80.0 gb ntfs
SATA 1
1 /sdb1 /swap 1.5 gb
2 /sdb5 / 1.0 gb ext3
3 /sdb6 /tmp 8.0 gb ext3
4 /sdb7 /var 3.0 gb ext3
5 /sdb8 /usr 6.0 gb ext3
6 /sdb9 /home 270.0 gb ext3
7 /sdb10 /share 10.0 gb vfat
All goes well until I get the screen to install LILO. I don't have a floppy drive, so I tried the MBR and partition options, and in both cases LILO errors out saying I'd have to edit it's .conf file and manually install by using a boot disk. Since I had no floppy, I couldn't create a boot disk.
Code:
/etc/lilo.conf
# Lilo configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start lilo global section
lba32
boot = /dev/sda
# compact #faster , but won't work on all systems.
prompt
timeout = 50
...
...
...
# windows bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/sda2
label = winxp
# Windows bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sdb5
label = slack
read-only # Non-umsdos filesystems should be mounted read-only for
# linux bootable partition config ends
Code:
root@slackware:/# lilo
part_nowrite: read:: Input/output error.
I'm lost at what to do at this point.
Thanks.