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iancognito85
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 Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2002 12:20 pm Post subject: LILO Troubles... |
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hi there, after having much trouble with grub, i am now resorting to lilo.
i have done the following:
emerge lilo
and it comes up with the message:
/boot is not mounted, please mount.
i mount it again and again but still, the same problem. Any ideas?  |
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jukka
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| Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2002 1:03 pm Post subject: Re: LILO Troubles... |
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you could use grub instead  |
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iancognito85
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| Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2002 1:05 pm Post subject: lilo vs. grub |
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in grub, when i boot into linux, i get:
Make sure "root=" option is valid.
Kernel Panic! Unable to mount root.
Or something like that...  |
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keratos68
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| Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2002 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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This does not seem to be an error from emerge, not at least for versions lilo-22.1-r3 nor lilo-22.3.3-r1 which are the ones in my tree. You can check for any error message you 'suspect' is an emerge problem, by searching the *.ebuild files in the /usr/portage tree, in this case it was /ur/portage/sys-apps/lilo.
So, is it an error from LILO? Can you post the full error/logs and your current /etc/lilo.conf file please.
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keratos68
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| Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2002 4:43 pm Post subject: Re: lilo vs. grub |
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| offie wrote: | in grub, when i boot into linux, i get:
Make sure "root=" option is valid.
Kernel Panic! Unable to mount root.
Or something like that... |
Look at the thread "Help Kernel Panic booting from Grub Bootdisk" in this forum - There's been lots of posts about this and related problems with "Panics: VFS: Unable to mount ... " errors but this particular one it juicy 
Maybe our Moderator/Groupies can give us a Sticky Thread, at the top of the forum???
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iancognito85
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| Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 9:33 pm Post subject: thanx |
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thanks for all the help! happy new year...
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