do i need to get rid of lilo?

06-01-2005	#1 (permalink)
peaceofpi Just Joined! Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 97	do i need to get rid of lilo? Apparently lilo is still on my second hd from my last project, and I think its stopping me from using the Knoppix live cd (though I'm not sure if the cd is even good since it wont work anywhere) How do I rid the second hd of lilo? Or what do I do to fix the problem?

06-01-2005	#2 (permalink)
lakerdonald Linux Guru Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: St. Petersburg, FL Posts: 5,039	Having lilo shouldn't affect anything. Make sure your BIOS is set to check the CD Drive before the HDD. __________________ the lost art of found sound

06-01-2005	#3 (permalink)
peaceofpi Just Joined! Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 97	it always has been cd before hd. when I put the livecd in, it just goes to lilo (which has 4 non valid booting options)

06-01-2005	#4 (permalink)
lakerdonald Linux Guru Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: St. Petersburg, FL Posts: 5,039	Did you burn this disc yourself or did you purchase it? __________________ the lost art of found sound

06-01-2005	#5 (permalink)
peaceofpi Just Joined! Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 97	I burned it myself. Actually I dl-ed the iso from one of the mirrors, and that cd worked great. Recently I lost the cd, but had a backup dvd that had the files on it. So I burned a data disk with those files (was that my mistake?) on to a cd-r and thats where I am.

06-01-2005	#6 (permalink)
peaceofpi Just Joined! Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 97	double post sorry

06-01-2005	#7 (permalink)
lakerdonald Linux Guru Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: St. Petersburg, FL Posts: 5,039	I guess you didn't burn it right. __________________ the lost art of found sound

06-01-2005	#8 (permalink)
peaceofpi Just Joined! Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 97	alright i got a correct burn this time, the iso worked right and the livecd booted up. I cleared everything on the hd in question, and installed Knoppix on it. I still have the same problem. When I boot up, it gives me three choices in lilo, all named Linux, 2 with version numbers after the name.

06-01-2005	#9 (permalink)
lakerdonald Linux Guru Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: St. Petersburg, FL Posts: 5,039	Edit /etc/lilo.conf, get rid of the old entries, and run /sbin/lilo __________________ the lost art of found sound

06-02-2005

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peaceofpi

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heres the part in lilo.conf that i think is important, please help:

Code:

default="Linux"

image=/boot/vmlinuz
	label="Linux"
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img
	append="ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off nomce quiet"
	read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27
	label="Linux(2.4)-1"
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.4.27
	append="ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off nomce quiet"
	read-only
	
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7
	label="Linux(2.6)-2"
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.7
	append="ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off nomce quiet"
	read-only