LILO part_nowrite help

kraydl · 11-10-2005, 12:23 AM

I'm having a problem getting LILO installed.

I installed Slackware 10.2
boot: sata.i

Formatting:

Code:

SATA 0
1 * /sda2   /winxp     80.0 gb   ntfs

SATA 1
1   /sdb1   /swap       1.5 gb   
2   /sdb5   /           1.0 gb   ext3
3   /sdb6   /tmp        8.0 gb   ext3  
4   /sdb7   /var        3.0 gb   ext3
5   /sdb8   /usr        6.0 gb   ext3
6   /sdb9   /home     270.0 gb   ext3
7   /sdb10  /share     10.0 gb   vfat

All goes well until I get the screen to install LILO. I don't have a floppy drive, so I tried the MBR and partition options, and in both cases LILO errors out saying I'd have to edit it's .conf file and manually install by using a boot disk. Since I had no floppy, I couldn't create a boot disk.

Code:

/etc/lilo.conf
# Lilo configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start lilo global section
lba32
boot = /dev/sda
# compact #faster , but won't work on all systems.
prompt
timeout = 50
...
...
...
# windows bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/sda2
label = winxp
# Windows bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sdb5
label = slack
read-only # Non-umsdos filesystems should be mounted read-only for
# linux bootable partition config ends

Code:

root@slackware:/# lilo
part_nowrite: read:: Input/output error.

I'm lost at what to do at this point.

Thanks.

egag · 11-10-2005, 10:28 AM

do you have more disks on your system ?
( like removable disks etc )

edit
maybe this is the cause...------------
Reading boot sector from /dev/sda
part_nowrite: read:: Input/output error
ewen@digital:~$
-=- cut here -=-

On further investigation this turned out to be due to a read error on
one or both of the removable disk SCSI devices (a magnetoptical and a
zip drive), quite probably due to there not being a disk in the drive
(the system is remote from where I was performing the upgrade, but I'm
fairly certain there's no disk in at least one of those drives).

------------------------------------------

try to put disks in the cd drives and try again.

egag

kraydl · 11-10-2005, 03:56 PM

That was it. There was no disk in the other drive.
Thanks a lot!

egag · 11-10-2005, 08:16 PM

ok!
that's a lilo-bug.

and remember...
google is your friend

egag