| Snocrash |
12-01-2011 07:28 AM |
Lilo problem with ubuntu studio and slack
Hi All,
Need a little help here.... After giving up on Ubuntu and Unity/Gnome3, I decided to come home to Slackware for normal Desktop usage. And, as always, it installed and runs great. However, after a few days of playing with kernels and rt patches and SlackBuilds, etc... I decided to just install Ubuntu Studio for my recording desktop because it works so well.
I made a new partition for it on /dev/sda and installed. I skipped the loader install because I figured I already had lilo from Slack and I like that mush better.
The issue is that Ubuntu seems to have re-ordered my drives from the order Slack used. It has moved /dev/sda to sdb...sdb to sdc.... and sdc to sda.... How is that possible??? What went wrong??? I thought the BIOS handled that....
I tried forcing the drive order in my lilo.conf:
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Code:
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
# Append any additional kernel parameters:
disk = /dev/sda
bios = 0x80
disk = /dev/sdb
bios = 0x81
disk = /dev/sdc
bios = 0x82
append=" vt.default_utf8=0"
boot = /dev/sda
large-memory
# Boot BMP Image.
# Bitmap in BMP format: 640x480x8
bitmap = /boot/slack.bmp
# Menu colors (foreground, background, shadow, highlighted
# foreground, highlighted background, highlighted shadow):
bmp-colors = 255,0,255,0,255,0
# Location of the option table: location x, location y, number of
# columns, lines per column (max 15), "spill" (this is how many
# entries must be in the first column before the next begins to
# be used. We don't specify it here, as there's just one column.
bmp-table = 60,6,1,16
# Timer location x, timer location y, foreground color,
# background color, shadow color.
bmp-timer = 65,27,0,255
# Standard menu.
# Or, you can comment out the bitmap menu above and
# use a boot message with the standard menu:
#message = /boot/boot_message.txt
# Wait until the timeout to boot (if commented out, boot the
# first entry immediately):
prompt
# Timeout before the first entry boots.
# This is given in tenths of a second, so 600 for every minute:
timeout = 140
# Override dangerous defaults that rewrite the partition table:
change-rules
reset
default=Sno1-rt
# 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
# End LILO global section
# Windows bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/sda1
label = Windows
table = /dev/sda
# Windows bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda6
label = Linux
read-only
image = /boot/Sno1
root = /dev/sda6
label = Sno1-rt
read-only
image = /mnt/Studio/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-35-preempt
initrd = /mnt/Studio/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-35-preempt
root = /dev/sda7
label = Studio
vga = normal
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends
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But 'lilo -t -v3 > /tmp/lilo.dump' gives the following:
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Code:
LILO version 22.8 (test mode), Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2006 John Coffman
Released 19-Feb-2007 and compiled at 14:44:48 on Feb 16 2010
Running Linux kernel 2.6.33.7-rt29-smp on i686
Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
device-mapper major = 253
raid_setup returns offset = 00000000 ndisk = 0
BIOS VolumeID Device
Reading boot sector from /dev/sda
pf_hard_disk_scan: ndevs=3
0800 1440CA79 /dev/sda
0810 000E4D87 /dev/sdb
0820 DEAADEAA /dev/sdc
Resolve invalid VolumeIDs
Resolve duplicate VolumeIDs
0800 1440CA79 /dev/sda
0810 000E4D87 /dev/sdb
0820 DEAADEAA /dev/sdc
device codes (user assigned pf) = 7
device codes (user assigned) = 7
device codes (BIOS assigned) = 7
device codes (canonical) = 7
Device 0x0800: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 30401 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 0 sectors.
Using Volume ID 1440CA79 on bios 80
Device 0x0806: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 30401 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 109370583 sectors.
Using Volume ID 1440CA79 on bios 80
mode = 0x03, columns = 80, rows = 25, page = 0
Using BITMAP secondary loader
Calling map_insert_data
Secondary loader: 19 sectors (0x3800 dataend).
bios_boot = 0x80 bios_map = 0x80 map==boot = 0 map S/N: 1440CA79
Mapping bitmap file /boot/slack.bmp
Device 0x0806: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 30401 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 109370583 sectors.
Using Volume ID 1440CA79 on bios 80
width=640 height=480 planes=1 bits/plane=8
Calling map_insert_file
Bitmap: 28 sectors.
BIOS data check was okay on the last boot
image_menu_space = 16
Boot other: /dev/sda1, on /dev/sda, loader CHAIN
Device 0x0801: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 30401 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
Using Volume ID 1440CA79 on bios 80
Device 0x0800: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 30401 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 0 sectors.
Using Volume ID 1440CA79 on bios 80
Mapped 6 (4+1+1) sectors.
Added Windows
<dev=0xe0,hd=30,cyl=95,sct=162>
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.33.4-smp
Device 0x0806: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 30401 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 109370583 sectors.
Using Volume ID 1440CA79 on bios 80
Setup length is 26 sectors.
Mapped 10591 sectors.
Added Linux
<dev=0xe0,hd=30,cyl=95,sct=165>
"ro root=806 vt.default_utf8=0"
Boot image: /boot/Sno1
Device 0x0806: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 30401 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 109370583 sectors.
Using Volume ID 1440CA79 on bios 80
Setup length is 26 sectors.
Mapped 10119 sectors.
Added Sno1-rt *
<dev=0xe0,hd=175,cyl=102,sct=160>
"ro root=806 vt.default_utf8=0"
Boot image: /mnt/Studio/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-35-preempt
Device 0x0807: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 30401 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 358166528 sectors.
Using Volume ID 1440CA79 on bios 80
Setup length is 26 sectors.
Mapped 8029 sectors.
Mapping RAM disk /mnt/Studio/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-35-preempt
Device 0x0807: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 30401 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 358166528 sectors.
Using Volume ID 1440CA79 on bios 80
RAM disk: 16360 sectors.
Added Studio
<dev=0xe0,hd=175,cyl=103,sct=7>
"ro root=807 vt.default_utf8=0"
BIOS VolumeID Device
80 1440CA79 0800
81 000E4D87 0810
82 DEAADEAA 0820
The boot sector and the map file have *NOT* been altered.
One warning was issued.
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Where did "device codes (canonical)=7" come from? Is that normal?? Is that the problem??? Never noticed it before....
I have tried wiping the mbr with dd, and removing the map and boot files from the /boot folder. Then re-running lilo to install it. But anytime I try to boot the Studio image, the kernel swaps /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, and fails.
I know I must be missing something here..... any help you can give is appreciated.
Thanks,
Sno |
