-----Original Message----- From: Anders Johansson [mailto:andjoh@rydsbo.net] Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 12:05 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Setting LILO as bootmanager with SuSE Linux 8.1
On Saturday 14 December 2002 00.23, David List wrote:
I have removed grub, inserted the /etc/lilo.conf file that worked on my previous setup on this system and I have run /sbin/lilo.
That should be enough. How about posting the lilo.conf you're using so the list has a chance to see what's wrong?
The file worked with SuSE Linux 7.3. Things must be a tad different with SuSE Linux 8.1. After removing all SCSI boot options from the system´s BIOS, I got the initial bootloader screen with the different options inserted in /etc/lilo.conf (only two in my case). I also got the first few boot lines. Then kernel panic arose. Here are the last few lines from the boot: ================================================================== Freeing initrd memory: 138k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2 VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or 08:03 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03 ================================================================== The line that says: 'VFS: Mounted root (ext filesystem).' strikes me, since the only ext2 I have set up on this system during installation is the /boot partition on /dev/sda1. All other partitions are ReiserFS. Is that an indication of what goes wrong? Here is my /etc/lilo.conf: ===================================================== append="hdc=ide-scsi noapic" boot=/dev/hda disk = /dev/hda bios = 0x80 disk=/dev/sr0 bios = 0x81 disk = /dev/sdc bios = 0x82 disk = /dev/sda bios = 0x83 disk = /dev/sdb bios = 0x84 vga = 775 read-only menu-scheme = Wg:kw:Wg:Wg lba32 prompt timeout = 50 message = /boot/message image = /boot/vmlinuz label = SuSE root = /dev/sda3 initrd = /boot/initrd optional other = /dev/hda1 label = Win2k ====================================================== Here is my /etc/fstab: ====================================================== /dev/hda1 /winc auto noauto,user 1 2 /dev/sda3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sdc1 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sdb1 /usr reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 ======================================================== Best regards, David List