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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> I just finished installing Gentoo on an older AMD laptop. There was |
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> one major problem that I hacked around, and things appear to be working |
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> OK, but I still get warnings when installing lilo. |
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> When I first did the install, I got the warning message... |
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> "Could not determine root partition!". I ran lilo and rebooted, but got |
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> a kernel panic, because the kernel couldn't find the boot device. I dug |
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> into this. Apparently the lilo ebuild tries to outsmart the user, and |
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> figure out the root partition itself, with the bash syntax... |
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> rootpart="$(mount | grep -v "tmpfs" | grep -v "rootfs" | grep "on / " | cut -f1 -d " ")" |
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> I don't know if I screwed up during the install, but *IN THE CHROOT*, |
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> mount returns a null string. I remembered vaguely that "mount" returns |
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> the contents of /etc/mtab. I looked at it, and /etc/mtab was also |
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> empty. I applied the "rootpart=" stuff against another machine, and |
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> found out which line it homed in on. I manually edited /etc/mtab in |
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> the chroot, inserting the short line... |
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> 805 |
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> |
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> ...Then I emerged lilo again. This time I got... |
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> ##################################################################### |
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> >>> Installing (1 of 1) sys-boot/lilo-23.2-r2 |
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> |
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> * Checking for LILO ... Yes, on /dev/sda |
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> * Running DOLILO to complete the install ... |
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> You can move /etc/conf.d/dolilo.example to /etc/conf.d/dolilo and edit it to set your preferences. |
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> fdisk: cannot open 80: No such file or directory |
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> fdisk: cannot open 80: No such file or directory |
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> Bootsector updated succesfully. |
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> ##################################################################### |
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> The important part is that the laptop now boots up OK. However, when I |
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> re-install lilo, on the natively-booted laptop, I still get the above |
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> messages. I'm using the same partitioning scheme and fstab that I've |
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> been using for years without problems. Here they are... |
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> outfput from "fdisk -l" |
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> ##################################################################### |
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> Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes, 625142448 sectors |
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> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes |
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> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
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> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
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> Disk identifier: 0x612cf108 |
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> |
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> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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> /dev/sda1 2048 625142447 312570200 5 Extended |
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> /dev/sda5 4096 618495 307200 83 Linux |
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> /dev/sda6 620544 17397759 8388608 83 Linux |
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> /dev/sda7 17399808 625142447 303871320 83 Linux |
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> ##################################################################### |
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> /etc/fstab |
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> ######################################################################### |
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> /dev/sda5 / ext2 noatime,nodiratime,async 0 1 |
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> /dev/sda7 /home ext3 noatime,nodiratime,async 0 1 |
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> /home/bindmounts/opt /opt auto bind 0 0 |
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> /home/bindmounts/var /var auto bind 0 0 |
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> /home/bindmounts/usr /usr auto bind 0 0 |
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> /home/bindmounts/tmp /tmp auto bind 0 0 |
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> /dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0 |
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> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0 |
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> /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd auto noauto,users,ro 0 0 |
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> devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 |
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> ######################################################################### |
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> Any ideas? |
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I don't let theebuild muck with lilo.conf,I edit it myself, so the root |
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is no problem -- its an initrd anyway. |
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-- |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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covici@××××××××××.com |
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