reinstalling lilo in master boot record

mikeotieno · 08-15-2006, 06:14 AM

Am dual booting WinXp and Suse 10.0 OSS in a Toshiba laptop, my windows had a problem and i reinsatlled it in its location hda1 and Linux is in hda5. I boot the sustem with my suse cd 1 and entered rescue mode but when i try running command /sbin/lilo to rerun lilo again i get this error message;
Fatal: create /boot/map~: Read-only file system
please help. Thanx in advance.

tredegar · 08-15-2006, 12:24 PM

Either lilo is trying to install itself on the CD ROM, or your /dev/hda is "read-only" (unlikely I think).
Try /sbin/lilo -b /dev/hda to tell lilo that you want it to install on the MBR of /dev/hda

If this doesn't work, boot from a live disk, mount your /dev/hda5 as /oldroot and then try

chroot /oldroot /sbin/lilo -b /dev/hda

Then shutdown and reboot

HTH

tgo · 08-15-2006, 12:28 PM

you can also from a live cd mount the partition, chroot it, then run lilo

metalick · 08-15-2006, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by mikeotieno

Am dual booting WinXp and Suse 10.0 OSS in a Toshiba laptop, my windows had a problem and i reinsatlled it in its location hda1 and Linux is in hda5. I boot the sustem with my suse cd 1 and entered rescue mode but when i try running command /sbin/lilo to rerun lilo again i get this error message;
Fatal: create /boot/map~: Read-only file system
please help. Thanx in advance.

hi. boot to your SuSE using the installation CD/DVD and use yast to reconfigure lilo

mikeotieno · 08-16-2006, 09:38 AM

thanx guyz i figured it out using my suse cd, using the rescue mode which allowed me to reinsatll lilo. Thanx fot support