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Old 03-02-2008, 11:39 PM   #1
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I'm installing Slackware 12 on an athlon 64 system. The system is completely new down to the harddrives. My problem is with LILO. It won't install to the boot record on the drive. I tried installing it onto a floppy and another error. Any ideas other than I got a bad copy or something? I verified it from slackware's website and I've never had any problems before.
 
Old 03-03-2008, 04:02 PM   #2
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I'm installing Slackware 12 on an athlon 64 system. The system is completely new down to the harddrives. My problem is with LILO. It won't install to the boot record on the drive. I tried installing it onto a floppy and another error. Any ideas other than I got a bad copy or something? I verified it from slackware's website and I've never had any problems before.
What is your hard drive configuration?

Which hard drive MBR are you trying to install lilo on?

What error message do you get when you attempt to install lilo on the hard drive MBR?

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Old 03-03-2008, 07:00 PM   #3
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I have two SATA drives. I use my secondary, the one that doesn't have XP, to install linux. I am going to repartition the primary drive and see if this helps. I can't remember the error message, I simply remember it saying there was an error installing LILO and that I'll manually have to do it. The problem is I can't get it to boot at all to install it. I'm sure there is a way to get it to boot into linux but I've had no luck with all the ways I've tried thus far.
 
Old 03-03-2008, 08:13 PM   #4
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I have two SATA drives. I use my secondary, the one that doesn't have XP, to install linux. I am going to repartition the primary drive and see if this helps. I can't remember the error message, I simply remember it saying there was an error installing LILO and that I'll manually have to do it. The problem is I can't get it to boot at all to install it. I'm sure there is a way to get it to boot into linux but I've had no luck with all the ways I've tried thus far.
First, do you have virus protection set in the BIOS? Did you check your md5sum for the iso(s) before and after the burn?

If you get errors, try to post them as this will assist us in diagnose of your problem(s).

The easiest way would be to use the install cd1 to boot the system as if you were going to install.

After you get to the login then from the cli (command line);

Code:
~#mkdir /slacktemp                   #temporary mount point
~#mount /dev/your_device /slacktemp  #this is the device you installed to
~#chroot /slacktemp                  #change to yours
~#cd /slacktemp/etc                  #change to directory with lilo.conf 
~#vi lilo.conf                       #edit lilo.conf, if need be
~#lilo -v -t -b /dev/your_device     #sda, hda this will only test 
~#lilo -v -b /dev/your_device        #this will write MBR to your_device

You can edit the '/etc/lilo.conf' if needed. If not then just run the first lilo to see if you produce error(s). This will just test (-t option) 'man lilo' to understand. If you do have errors then document and post back here. If not then the second lilo will write to the device.

You should now be able to re-boot your system.
 
Old 03-04-2008, 01:36 AM   #5
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I have it installed and I can boot linux. There is another problem, it won't boot into windows. LILO gives me the option of linux or windows but when i try to boot windows it states OS can't be found. The problem I have is that the partition for windows is somehow hidden. It is there but its not there unless I want to format the entire drive. Is there a way of unhidding this?

I know the partition is still there due to the fact that amount of space is missing from the linux partitions so it wasn't taken up by accident. The problem is that I can't view it unless I go into the fdisk. I've seen this happen with other drives where they will hide but it was a secondary drive not the main. I'm at a lose as to how to get it back.
 
Old 03-04-2008, 11:31 AM   #6
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I have it installed and I can boot linux. There is another problem, it won't boot into windows. LILO gives me the option of linux or windows but when i try to boot windows it states OS can't be found. The problem I have is that the partition for windows is somehow hidden. It is there but its not there unless I want to format the entire drive. Is there a way of unhidding this?

I know the partition is still there due to the fact that amount of space is missing from the linux partitions so it wasn't taken up by accident. The problem is that I can't view it unless I go into the fdisk. I've seen this happen with other drives where they will hide but it was a secondary drive not the main. I'm at a lose as to how to get it back.
Post the output of 'fdisk -l'.
 
Old 03-04-2008, 03:39 PM   #7
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Ok. I must have made a large screw up or something. Some how I managed to hide the windows partition when partitioning the drive. I went in and made the partition active again. Now I am getting nothing from LILO. I'm going to start fresh again and see if I can get it working.

The ISOs checked out when I burned them. I'm going to download fresh tonight and repartition tomorrow after burning and checking them again.
 
Old 03-08-2008, 02:40 PM   #8
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no solution, but maybe a workaround, might be grub its in extra:
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/slackwa....0/extra/grub/
 
  


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