Hey guys I decided to upgrade to sarge, from woody, but I have a slight problem. I run a dual boot machine right now, for the others in the house, Im not quite ready to unleash linux on them. however, apparently lilo has a new configuration with the version in sarge, and the installer wasn't nice enough to include Windows, as a boot option. Well no big deal right? I edited lilo.conf, and ran lilo, gave me a I'm not sure what you mean attitude . So I attempted to edit lilo.conf using the apparent new scheme from /proc/partitions, which is

/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc

That appears to be my master HD, and the

/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part*

where * as Im sure most of you would know is a number ie 1-6 this would indicate at least to my understanding the partition number. Well I ran lilo after configuring with this and recieved a fatal error, something about raid, I am not using raid. I can't use the former

/dev/hda

scheme due to the fact that I trid that and it of course tole me that it was wrong, well I rebooted, and now I can get into windows but linux can't find the root. I added the boot argument for root as both /dev/hda5, and /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5, and /ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 and well I still get no root found. Anyone familiar with this lilo configuration type? I could really use some advice/assistance. thanks all in advance I appreciate it.



--Alex

your part about the part* meaning a partition 1-6 is wrong. it would be 0-5. I have NEVER seen LILO with entries like that, on x86. If you have the Debian install cd boot with it and type rescbf24 and give us the output of cat /etc/fstab

Hey I can see what you're talking about re the 0-5, 1-6 thing, but I only figured it was 1-5 since I only had 3 partitions on the disc, hda1, hda5, and hda6 and What I had was part 1, part2, part 5, and part6 but thats of little right now. I can't boot into rescue mode due to the fact that the sarge cd I have doesn't have a rescue mode, but I did use woody cd with rescbf24 and got the old scheme of /dev/hda* with cat /etc/fstab, I also recieved the same scheme with cat /proc/partitions, well I know that the proc/partitions in sarge is different so I rebooted and ran the installer from sarge then mounted the partitions, and ran a shell from the installer, when I ran cat /etc/fstab I revieved the same output with the /dev/hda* scheme, with the appropriate FS ie in this case all EXT3, so then I ran cat /proc/partitions, this is where the partitions are in the other format of /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc. I hace done some research and found a post elswhere with the same situation, the response in that case was that the old naming would work as well, but in this case it isn't and when I change the root to the new scheme it talls me fatal raid_error, or something along those line I don't know what to do.

-Alex

well I did a re install of Sarge and then just added other=/dev/hda1 as a windows option ran lilo, revieved the same error of /dev/ide/..... is /dev/hda then I rebooted well I can at least logon to both systems now thankgod, Im gonna try and see what else I can dig up on this thanks for the help.

-Alex

PS I love Sarge already! despite a few ideosynchrosies, it's great