Hi all I'm trying to install Woody on this laptop. It has a floppy drive xor a CD-ROM drive; the two can't be used at the same time. So I started with Toms Root and Boot disk (http://www.toms.net/rb), used it to partition and format the hard disk and to wget the base2_2.tgz from my server. I get to the point where base2_2.tgz is unpacked, lilo.conf is set up just right and everything is ready to run lilo. But lilo says: --- snip --- /# lilo -r /mnt -v LILO Version 20, Copyright 1992-1997 Werner Almesberger Reading boot sector from current root. Can't put the boot sector on logical partition 0x306 /# _ --- snap --- The file systems are mounted as follows: /dev/hda6 on /mnt type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda7 on /mnt/home type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda1 on /mnt/boot type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda5 is the swap partition. lilo.conf has: --- snip --- lba32 boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda6 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map prompt timeout=20 vga=2 default=Linux image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=LinuxOLD read-only optional --- snap --- I just don't get it. LILO shouldn't try to put the boot sector on /dev/hda6, but on /dev/hda1?? Any help is appreciated. Beat Bolli -- mail: `echo '<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' | sed -e 's/[A-S]//g'` pgp: 0x506A903A; 49D5 794A EA77 F907 764F D89E 304B 93CF 506A 903A icbm: 47° 02' 43.0" N, 07° 16' 17.5" E (WGS84)
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