Hi, On Wednesday, April 03, 2002 at 23:51:43, SMD Alachouzos wrote:
On Wednesday, April 03, 2002 at 22:41:38, SMD Alachouzos wrote:
When I installed SuSE Linux 7.3, I chose to write LILO to my boot partition /dev/hda3 during the installation process. This was OK, and Linux now boots from /dev/hda3.
However, I now need to re-write LILO to the /dev/hda3 boot partition. But whenever I use YaST2 to try to do so all that I get is an error message saying "Could not write the LILO boot sector".
I have no idea WHY YaST2 cannot write LILO to my /dev/hda3 partition. However, it seems that this is not just a problem with this particular destination partition but rather a problem with writing LILO to ANYWHERE -- because YaST2 refuses to write LILO to a floppy either. (i.e. if I try to create a boot floppy with YaST2 I get an error message saying "Could not write the LILO boot sector to the floppy. Please check that the floppy disk is formatted [it is] and that the write protection tab is removed [it is]".
Any ideas as to how I might go about investigating what is wrong?
Run lilo from console as root with -v -t
$ lilo -v -t
and post the output of it here.
Henne
OK -- I'm posting the output below. A further peculiarity, by the way, is that whenever I attempt to write LILO to anywhere with YaST2 this seems to result in the line "lba32" being deleted from my /etc/lilo.conf file. (I inserted that line in the file in order to overcome any 1024-cylinder-boundary problems).
Anyway, the output from the lilo -v -t test is as follows:--
Warning: CHANGE AUTOMATIC assumed after "other=/dev/hda1"
Thats the problem. Lilo returns another exit code than 0 and YaST2 thinks it has failed. How does your /etc/lilo.conf looks like? Especially the windows part. Henn -- Hendrik Vogelsang aka Henne mailto: hvogel<at>hennevogel.de We are a generation raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is the answer. # random sigs made with fortune