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morrison
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 Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 9:09 am Post subject: Cannot find -boot/silo.con |
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Hi all,
I've just installed, at last, gentoo on my Ultra 5.
Now when booting a get next error :
Cannot find /boot/silo.conf (unknown ext2 error)
Couldn't load /boot/silo.conf
My silo.conf :
partition=1
root=/dev/hda4
timeout=4
image = /boot/image
label = linux
My fstab
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda4 / ext3 noatime 0 0
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda5 /usr ext3 noatime 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 noatime 0 0
Also have copied silo.conf to /boot/etc/silo.conf but error persist.
Any suggestion ?
Thanks in advance |
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labrador
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Joined: 04 Oct 2003
Posts: 316
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| Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 1:45 am Post subject: Noauto for /boot |
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I'd guess that /boot isn't mounted.
See in the fstab file it shows noauto - that tells the system
not to mount it on boot up.
Verify with the mount command or df
Use: mount /boot
and then try lilo -C /boot/silo.conf
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zappa_the_great
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Joined: 30 Dec 2003
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Location: Konstanz, Germany
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| Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 10:15 am Post subject: Re: Cannot find -boot/silo.con |
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| morrison wrote: | Hi all,
Cannot find /boot/silo.conf (unknown ext2 error)
Couldn't load /boot/silo.conf
My silo.conf :
partition=1
root=/dev/hda4
timeout=4
image = /boot/image
label = linux
My fstab
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda4 / ext3 noatime 0 0
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda5 /usr ext3 noatime 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 noatime 0 0
Also have copied silo.conf to /boot/etc/silo.conf but error persist.
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Hi,
First of all, having a separate /boot partition is a bad idea  If you didn't specify /boot/silo.conf explicitly when running silo, it picks up /etc/silo.conf (not /boot/etc/silo.conf). So you'd better check if /etc/silo.conf is correct. BTW, if your kernel image resides in /boot/image, it think should be
image = /image (without /boot) in your case. But IMHO, do yourself a favour and get rid of that /boot partition 
HTH
JM
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rsborn
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Joined: 10 Feb 2004
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Location: Webster, NY
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| Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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I had this same problem and got varying answers but here is the one that worked (it was my own by the way)
What the other users said about not being mounted is correct but you don't need to mount boot to boot. Here is what my silo.conf looks like now:
partition = 1
root = /dev/hda4
timeout = 15
image = /vmlinux
label = linux
image = /vmlinux.smb
label = SMBKernel
Notice the lack of /boot since it is already booting from the boot partition, it is redundant to use the /boot
On an added note, I think it is a very GOOD idea to have boot on a seperate partition, has really saved me on occasion, I deleted the partition by accident once but since it was only boot files, I could resurrect it just by booting the live CD and repairing the one partition.
Just my 2 cents
Rick |
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