On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:16:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> All,
[snip]
> When I attempt to install lilo on my system now, I get the following
> error:
[snip]
> WARNING!
> Your /etc/fstab configuration file gives device /dev/hda3 as the root
> filesystem device. This doesn't look to me like an "ordinary" block
> device. Either your fstab is broken and you should fix it, or you are
> using hardware (such as a RAID array) which this simple configuration
> program does not handle.
[snip]
> My question is, what is wrong with the following /etc/fstab file? I
> ==haven't touched it==, ever. Why is lilo suddenly complaining, and what
> in the following setup implies that /dev/hda3 is -not- a valid block
> device? Or is that determination coming from elsewhere?
>
>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options>
> <dump> <pass>
> /dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
> 1
> /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 > 0
> /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 > 0
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 > 0
> /dev/cdrom2 /cdrom2 iso9660 defaults,rw,user,noauto 0 > 0
What does "fdisk -l /dev/hda3" say? I'm assuming you've been booting
off this already, so that simple lilo configuration program must be
sucking. Just handroll your own lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo.
Something like:
boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda3
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
compact
vga=normal
delay=20
image=/vmlinuz
label=linux-X.X.X.
Admittedly, been using GRUB for a while now, so I'm rusty on lilo.conf.
You might need some LBA mode or some such as well...
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
