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charlie_lab 09-04-2011 11:03 AM
btrfs and lilo wont install on the root partition
 
Hello,

I have made 2 partitions 1 of 2 G as swap and 1 of 48 G as root.
Because I want to chainload lilo with easybcd I want to install lilo on the root partition.

But if I say this on the installer it complains that the lilo install don't succeed.

Anyone know how to make this work ?

Roelof

andrewthomas 09-04-2011 11:53 AM
I believe that lilo has problems with btrfs.

Try using Grub2 and to the install to the partition boot record like you tried to do with lilo.

It should work.

charlie_lab 09-04-2011 12:15 PM
Hello,

Thanks,
But how can I choose Grub2 from installation ?

Roelof

andrewthomas 09-04-2011 01:01 PM
You can't. You will have to build grub2 and its dependencies from the slackbuilds at slackbuilds.org.

As an alternative, you could make a small ext2/3 /boot partition that will work with lilo and keep your / btrfs

charlie_lab 09-06-2011 12:50 PM
Hello,

I did a re-install and make my root partition now jfs.
Still installing Lilo on the root partition.

But now when I want to boot Slackware the machine boots again and I see the boot menu again.
Does Slackware uses gpt partitions or is there another reason ?

Roelof

andrewthomas 09-06-2011 06:47 PM
After BIOS, you should see your easybcd menu.

Then you choose to chainload Slackware.

You will then see the slackware LILO menu to choose which kernel you want to boot.

Is this not the sequence of events that occurs on your machine?

ReaperX7 09-06-2011 08:36 PM
LILO is only confirmed to work with EXT2/3/4, JFS, and ReiserFS (as far as Slackware goes). It will not work with XFS and BTRFS if they are the boot partition and LILO is installed to either the MBR or the Linux partition.

I think EXT4 is still the recommended and default partitioning method for Slackware.

charlie_lab 09-07-2011 06:33 AM
Andrew :

That's not the sequence.
The mine is :

1) I boot and see the easyvcd menu.
2) I choose Slackware.
3) Screen goes black and the computer is at point 1.

Reaper :

Wierd, Then Slackware must be run on my machine but it don't.

Roelof

andrewthomas 09-07-2011 06:54 PM
To see what you have going on, go to

http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/

follow the instructions and post the RESULTS.txt within code
(select text and then hit the # above) tags in your reply.

charlie_lab 09-08-2011 02:17 AM
Hello,

Here the result.txt

Code:
                  Boot Info Script 0.60    from 17 May 2011


============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================

 => No known boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
 => Grub Legacy (v0.97) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb and looks on the
    same drive in partition #2 for /boot/grub/stage2 and /boot/grub/menu.lst.

sda1: __________________________________________________________________________

    File system:      ext2
    Boot sector type:  -
    Boot sector info: 
    Operating System: 
    Boot files:       

sda2: __________________________________________________________________________

    File system:      ntfs
    Boot sector type:  Windows Vista/7
    Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
    Operating System:  Windows 7
    Boot files:        /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe

sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________

    File system:      swap
    Boot sector type:  LILO
    Boot sector info:  LILO is installed in boot sector of /dev/sdb1 and
                      looks at sector 7193 of /dev/sdb for the "map" file,
                      but the "map" file was not found at this location.

sdb2: __________________________________________________________________________

    File system:      jfs
    Boot sector type:  LILO
    Boot sector info:  LILO is installed in boot sector of /dev/sdb2 and
                      looks at sector 81093664 of /dev/sdb for the "map"
                      file, but the "map" file was not found at this
                      location.
    Mounting failed:  mount: /dev/sdb2 already mounted or sdb2 busy

============================ Drive/Partition Info: =============================

Drive: sda _____________________________________________________________________

Disk /dev/sda: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders, total 160836480 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Partition  Boot  Start Sector    End Sector  # of Sectors  Id System

/dev/sda1              2,048      206,847      204,800  83 Linux
/dev/sda2    *        206,848  160,833,535  160,626,688  7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS


Drive: sdb _____________________________________________________________________

Disk /dev/sdb: 61.5 GB, 61492838400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7476 cylinders, total 120103200 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Partition  Boot  Start Sector    End Sector  # of Sectors  Id System

/dev/sdb1              2,048    4,196,351    4,194,304  82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2          4,196,352  120,103,199  115,906,848  83 Linux


"blkid" output: ________________________________________________________________

Device          UUID                                  TYPE      LABEL

/dev/sda1        422feecb-f03f-41aa-b3bd-4d602f82f93a  ext2     
/dev/sda2        38082BE7082BA33C                      ntfs     
/dev/sdb1        6cb34fe4-7ea8-40f3-bcc3-384caaf44f3b  swap     
/dev/sdb2        618608f4-8488-4fac-89bf-bd280318ed15  jfs       

================================ Mount points: =================================

Device          Mount_Point              Type      Options

/dev/root        /                        jfs        (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda1        /test                    ext2      (rw)
/dev/sda2        /windows                fuseblk    (rw,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)


======================== Unknown MBRs/Boot Sectors/etc: ========================

Unknown MBR on /dev/sda

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00000160  84 e4 74 02 b4 41 5b 8a  d3 c3 0d 0a 4d 42 52 20  |.ät.´A[.ÓÃ..MBR |
00000170  45 72 72 6f 72 20 00 0d  0a 00 72 65 73 73 20 61  |Error ....ress a|
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00000190  72 6f 6d 20 66 6c 6f 70  70 79 2e 2e 2e 00 00 00  |rom floppy......|
000001a0  00 00 10 00 01 00 00 7c  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |.......|........|
000001b0  00 00 00 00 00 f2 0e 00  fd c8 4d 98 90 90 00 20  |.....ò..ýÈM.... |
000001c0  21 00 83 df 13 0c 00 08  00 00 00 20 03 00 80 df  |!..ß....... ...ß|
000001d0  14 0c 07 fe ff ff 00 28  03 00 00 f8 92 09 00 00  |...þÿÿ.(...ø....|
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00000200


=============================== StdErr Messages: ===============================

hexdump: stdin: Illegal seek.
hexdump: stdin: Illegal seek.
  No volume groups found
mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically
Roelof


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