Text 6246, 60 rader
Skriven 2006-06-08 04:46:56 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 6245 av Paul Rogers (1:105/360.0)
Ärende: You gotta smile
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Hey Paul!

Jun 07 21:09 06, Paul Rogers wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 PR> OK, that gets me to "LI", close but no cigar.  Oh, yeah,
 PR> I added lba32 also.

I think that is the default but I recall a few years back, probably a few more
years then even that, I did have to add that to lilo.conf.  Probably a good
idea.

 PR> Now, lilo.conf says map=/boot/map, but there's no such file
 PR> after the clone script runs lilo, and no way to tell lilo
 PR> specifically to make one.  I guess that has something about
 PR> the disk geometry?

Hm.  I'll have to check that the next target one I do (soon).  I'll compare
with the /boot/map on the host machine with the one created on the target. 
Jeez I've been doing it for so long now I forget half the stuff I learned in
the 'School of Hard Knocks'.  Obviously getting stupider as I get older.  :-/

Anyhow, I'll redirect my steps of creating a bootable target flashdisk of the
ttylinux-64-bit from the sata drive just so I get it straight and don't
inadvertently miss something significant in the telling.  Sound okay? 
Shouldn't be any different then a 32-bit 'install'.

 PR> So, just for grins I typed in the long chroot to get me
 PR> there (while I was running Knoppix) with a login shell.

That is more or less what I am hoping to do from the flash disk to the sata
drive as soon as the cpu arrives.  He promised tomorrow.  We'll see.

 PR> Then I mounted /dev/hda1, commented out that reference to
 PR> the non-existent map file and ran lilo -v.

Hm.  I'll have to check.

 PR> That seemed
 PR> happy and now the map file was there, so I rebooted and
 PR> Bob's your uncle.

For sure.  That is a given.

 PR> I'm not sure if the map file was the culprit, because once
 PR> I could get to the target system, whether syslinux or
 PR> chroot, running lilo from the bash prompt always made the
 PR> system bootable.

Could very well be.  I'll try it again and let you know.

 PR> You're the lilo fan, can you explain it to me?

See above.  I've been using it for so long without question I seem to have
forgotten the some of the important what and why's.  Soon.

Life is good,
Maurice

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