i don't understand why it gives an error " sda " ?

reading " man lilo ", maybe this works: " #lilo -M /dev/hda mbr "

egag

ok here's what came up when i did that command

root@hideyoshi:/# lilo -M /dev/hda mbr
Backup copy of /dev/hda in /boot/boot.0300
The Master Boot Record of /dev/hda has been updated.

well i rebooted after that command, but nothing.......i tried hda3 instead, but then i get another message

root@hideyoshi:/home/samurai# lilo -M /dev/hda3 mbr
Fatal: /dev/hda3 is not a master device with a primary parition table

ok, so that didn't work either........what now? :P

/dev/hda3 is a partition on /dev/hda. After you rebuilt the mbr (the lilo -M /dev/hda mbr), did you run lilo again with no switches?

yea, here's what i did

root@hideyoshi:/home/samurai# lilo -M /dev/hda mbr
/boot/boot.0300 exists - no /dev/hda backup copy made.
The Master Boot Record of /dev/hda has been updated.
root@hideyoshi:/home/samurai# lilo
Fatal: open /dev/sda: Read-only file system
root@hideyoshi:/home/samurai#

and its still not working

are you sure you saved the config-file to " /etc/lilo.conf " ?
( really don't understand the "sda" )

egag

ok, here is what lilo.conf looks like

# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/hda
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
prompt
timeout = 300
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
vga = 788
# Normal VGA console
# vga = normal
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
# vga=791
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k
# vga=790
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
# vga=773
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
# vga=788
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k
# vga=787
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
# vga=771
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k
# vga=785
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k
# vga=784
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256
# vga=769
# ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda3
label = Linux
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
image = /boot/vmlinuz.old
root = /dev/hda3
label = slack.old
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends

maybe the first boot-device setting in your bios is not set to hda.
that can cause this also.....

egag

yea ok, i will go in the bio and change the boot device to c: only, right now I have it set to cdrom, because i tend to boot off cds a lot, but i will change it, and then try those commands again, to see if it works, and go from there if it still doesn't

uh....is that a cd r/w drive ?

egag

Well i chnaged the default boot device to the hard drive rather than my cdrom, and tried again, and still nothing

root@hideyoshi:/home/samurai# lilo -M /dev/hda mbr
/boot/boot.0300 exists - no /dev/hda backup copy made.
The Master Boot Record of /dev/hda has been updated.
root@hideyoshi:/home/samurai# lilo
Fatal: open /dev/sda: Read-only file system
root@hideyoshi:/home/samurai#

can you umount the cd, and try " lilo " again.

egag

...and do you boot your sys from cd when running "lilo". ?

egag

most of the time i don't boot from the cd, if i don't have a cd, it will just automatically boot the hd, which is how i alwasy boot.. and this is what i have mounted when the system has started up.

root@hideyoshi:/home/samurai# mount
/dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /NTFS-C type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,umask=0000)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
root@hideyoshi:/home/samurai#

well...i'm running out of options here....

maybe you've gotto mark one partition as active ( hda3 )

#lilo -A /dev/hda3

then ( again )

#lilo

egag