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Hello. On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:47:15 +0200, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hi,
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:-- linux:~ # lilo -v -t LILO version 21.7-5 (test mode), Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Linux Real Mode Interface library Copyright (C) 1998 Josh Vanderhoof Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2001 John Coffman Released 06-May-2001 and compiled at 22:38:15 on Sep 23 2001. Reading boot sector from /dev/hda3 Merging with /boot/boot.b Mapping message file /boot/message Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz Mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd Added linux * Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz.suse Mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd.suse Added failsafe Boot other: /dev/hda1, on /dev/hda, loader /boot/chain.b Warning: CHANGE AUTOMATIC assumed after "other=/dev/hda1" Added windows Boot image: /boot/memtest.bin Added memtest86 The boot sector and the map file have *NOT* been altered. linux:~ #