dell optiplex 320 -lilo fedora 8/9 installation
bruce
bedouglas at earthlink.net
Mon Jul 7 01:08:50 UTC 2008
Hi...
Weird issue here, that I can't recall how I solved it before. Googled sites
aren't shedding any light either.
I've got a dell optiplex 320 from an auction...I'm looking to install fedora
8/9 on the box. I've performed the initial installation, where I created the
raw partition, and installed the basic fedora OS.
I reformatted the drive to be:
/ primary partition (ext3)
/boot 100M (ext3)
/swap 4G (swap)
/etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc procs defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sda3/ swap swap defaults 0 0
e2label /dev/sda1
/boot
e2label /dev/sda2
/
i manually configured the partitions for the drive and got the results
above.
in order to install/boot fedora, you need to use lilo, instead of grub.
so i downloaded/installed lilo, along with the config file for lilo
lilo.conf:
----------------------------------------------------------------
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/System.map-2.6.23.1-42.fc8
prompt
timeout=50
lba32
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8
label=linux
append="acpi=off pci=nomsi root=LABEL=/"
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img
read-only
-------------------------------------------------------------------
the dir for "/mnt/sysimage/boot" is:
System.map-2.6.23.1-42.fc8
config-2.6.23.1-42.fc8
grub
initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img
lost+found
vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8
when i do an lilo -v"
i get the following err msg:
----------------------------------------------------------
Reading boot sector from /dev/sda
Fatal: Trying to map files from unnamed device 0x0001 (NFS/RAID mirror down
?)
so... i'm missing something and i can't see it!!!
any thoughts/comments would be greatly appreciated...
thanks
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