Ok, I downloaded the package (lilo.tgz). But it's a .tgz file. First, I tried to
extract it all to a temp directory (didn't want to make a mess in my Linux
partition), but when I tried to start "liloconf" I got this message:
/liloconfig: /var/log/setup/tmp/reply: No such file or directory
So I think to myself, ok, maybe I need to install it like it should be installed
so I make "tar xvfz lilo.tgz" from the "/" directory. Again the same message comes
back. Now, I'm trying to make an RPM out of it, so I downloaded "alien" but when
I use alien on it ("alien -r lilo.tgz") it says:
File is not a regular file: /root/dl/lilo-1/lilo-1-1.spec
alien: Error putting together the RPM package
And then I get left this file in /root/dl/lilo-1:
--.spec
(the "--" is whats written i expected there to be "lilo-1-1.spec", I also expected
to get this file when i normally extract the lilo.tgz but it ain't there)
What should I do?
Noam Meltzer
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Adir Abraham wrote:
> Well, if you think that Slackware might help, you can try the newest there
> is from ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware-7.0/kernels/. Liloconf and
> everything is there. If that helped you, then we probably found a nice
> (yet surprising) discovery about RedHat and "their" LILO. Or you can try
> Ira's way and to see if that works. Whatever you try - good luck :)
>
> Adir.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Btw, Suse v6.3 is going to come out to the public at December 1st.
>
> On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, root wrote:
>
> > Indid, I use LBA through the BIOS, but it sounds strange to me that it's a
> > problem, and I'll explain why:
> > Before I installed RedHat 6.1 I used SlackWare 3.6 and afterwards 4.0. Their
> > LILO (I know it sounds strange, because it's basically the same LILO) was
> > easy to configure and did NO problems to me. I used the "liloconf" program
> > which comes with slackware and added on this a little editing in the
> > "/etc/lilo.conf" and everything worked just fine with the same system, and
> > disk partitioning.
> > Maybe if someone with SlackWare could send me the "liloconf" program it might
> > help.
> >
> > Noam Meltzer
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > UIN: 4853872
> >
> > Adir Abraham wrote:
> >
> > > We had few similar problems in the Linux Installation Party -- we couldn't
> > > make LILO finding the Linux partition, or the Windows 98 partition on a
> > > very few computers, so it simply just skipped them away going directly
> > > into Windows 98, or Linux, so the (temporary) solution was to give him a
> > > LILO diskette to manually boot Linux whenever he needs, and that way we
> > > didn't have to mess with the MBR (because we just couldn't).
> > > The problem was the HD, which was set by default (on the BIOS) to LBA
> > > mode, giving it more than 1024 cylinders to count. LILO, LBA mode and more
> > > than 1024 cylinders on the HD just don't work together.. check if you have
> > > that problem.
> > >
> > > Adir.
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Noam Meltzer wrote:
> > >
> > > > I installed redhat6.1 on my system. After overcoming on the problems of
> > > > having no bootable partition (using cfdisk from slackware install) I was
> > > > happy to start using redhat.
> > > > Anyway I faced against the following situations, looking for solutions
> > > > for both:
> > > >
> > > > 1) I don't want to write the root's password every time i start KPPP.
> > > >
> > > > 2) I can't make LILO to boot my win98 partition (it's not for me!!! my
> > > > lousy sisters need it)
> > > > My partition table goes like this:
> > > > /dev/hda1 - Linux
> > > > /dev/hda(2, it think) - Linux swap
> > > > /dev/hda(3 and 5 i think) - fat32 partitions
> > > > and the important section:
> > > > /dev/hdb1 - fat32 bootable partition which has windows and should get
> > > > booted through LILO
> > > >
> > > > Noam
> > > >
> >
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