Knoppix 4.0 - Problems setting up lilo.conf

08-11-2005	#1 (permalink)
twoHats Linux Newbie Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: NH, USA Posts: 194	Knoppix 4.0 - Problems setting up lilo.conf Hi - I have set up quite a few systems using lilo but this time i am stumped. After using Knoppix 4.0 for a while from DVD i decided i liked it enough to give it a partition. I used knoppix-installer from the CP to install Knoppix 4 on hda5. I had the boot loader installed on hda5 also, because my multi boot lilo configuration is working great, and i figured i could just edit /etc/lilo.conf to bring up the new Knoppix. So far i have been proved wrong. Here is my lilo.conf [/code] lba32 boot="/dev/hda" prompt timeout="50" message=/boot/message # map=/boot/System.map # install=/boot/boot.b image="/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8" label="RH9" root="/dev/hda1" read-only initrd="/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img" image=/boot/vmlinuzKnoppix root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrdKnoppix label="Knoppix" append="devfs=mount lang=us dma" vga=788 # read-write read-only #image=/vmlinuz # label="Woody" # root=/dev/hda5 # initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.eric.img# # read-only # append="hdc=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/" [/code] The error i get is: ... Code: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 RAMDISK: Incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 4194304 Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(3,5) Here is my /boot dir: Code: [root@GoldenFalcon tom]# ll /mnt/hda5/boot total 7136 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 308326 Jun 1 16:29 coffee.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60612 May 26 14:52 config-2.6.11 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 5 17:02 debian.bmp -> /boot/sid.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 153720 Jun 1 16:29 debianlilo.bmp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 384 Aug 5 17:17 grub lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 5 17:16 initrd.img -> initrd.img-2.6.11 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4121516 Aug 5 17:16 initrd.img-2.6.11 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 5 13:36 initrdKnoppix -> initrd.img-2.6.11 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94356 Feb 2 2005 memtest86.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 98728 Apr 4 09:22 memtest86+.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23662 Jun 1 16:29 sarge.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24116 Jun 1 16:29 sid.bmp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 5 17:02 System.map -> System.map-2.6.11 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 867554 May 26 14:55 System.map-2.6.11 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Aug 5 17:16 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.11 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1531698 May 26 14:55 vmlinuz-2.6.11 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Aug 5 13:35 vmlinuzKnoppix -> vmlinuz-2.6.11 As you can see - i've been grasping at straws in my lilo.conf - but nothing has worked yet. The links are so that i do all of my lilo work from one OS. Please don't tell me to change to GRUB - i have already considered that. I like the simplicity of lilo. Thanks - Tom __________________ - Clouds don't crash - Bertrand Meyer registered Linux user 393557 finally - hw to brag about - but next year it will look pitifully quaint: Athlon64 X2 3800 - 1G PC3200 - 250G SATA - ati radeon x300 circa 2006