[SOLVED] Success running GParted 0.15.0 Live HD using LILO

aaazen · 03-24-2013, 12:24 PM

The online documentation for GParted Live on Hard Disk shows how to use Grub for dual booting.

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to use LILO instead?

Here is how I used LILO instead

Download the gparted-live...zip file from:
http://gparted.org/download.php

In this case I downloaded gparted-live-0.15.0-1-amd64.zip
Create an partition of 256MiB.

Lets call it /dev/sda2 for this example.

Here is how to create an LBA FAT32 partition though other file systems will
work too.

If you don't have GParted, use fdisk and make the partition type "c".

And again if you don't have GParted make a dos filesystem on the partition:

mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sda2
Create directory /a2 and mount the partition there:

mkdir /a2
mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /a2
Unzip the gparted download file into the /a2 directory:

cd /a2
unzip gparted-live...zip
Edit the /etc/lilo.conf file:

# GParted bootable partition config begins
image = /a2/live/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda2
label = gparted
append = "boot=live config union=aufs noswap noprompt ip=frommedia live-media-path=/live bootfrom=/dev/sda2 toram=filesystem.s
quashfs"
vga=788
initrd = /a2/live/initrd.img
# GParted bootable partition config ends
run lilo:
lilo

aaazen · 03-25-2013, 12:47 AM

Since I first posted, I discovered that there is no need for a separate partition in which to put the GParted Live files as a simple directory will do fine.

I also found that I can boot the memtest86+ utility very easily as well.

Here are newer instructions for using GParted Live on an existing Linux system that uses LILO:

Download the gparted-live...zip file from:
http://gparted.org/download.php

In this case I downloaded gparted-live-0.15.0-1-amd64.zip
Create a /gparted-live directory:

mkdir /gparted-live
Unzip the gparted download file into the /gparted-live directory:

cd /gparted-live
unzip gparted-live...zip
Edit the /etc/lilo.conf file and add a section for gparted.
Lets assume that the /gparted-live directory resides on the /dev/sda4 partition.

# GParted bootable partition config begins
image = /gparted-live/live/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda4 # make sure this matches the bootfrom= below ...
label = gparted
append = "boot=live config union=aufs noswap noprompt ip=frommedia live-media-path=/gparted-live/live bootfrom=/dev/sda
4 toram=filesystem.squashfs"
vga=788
initrd = /gparted-live/live/initrd.img
# GParted bootable partition config ends
Optionally add a section for memtest86+

# memtest86+ bootable partition config begins
image = /gparted-live/live/memtest
label = memtest
# memtest86+ bootable partition config ends
run lilo:
lilo