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LILO problem on dual boot install BT3 and XP
I just bought a new HD for my laptop and decided to install BT3 and XP on it.
I followed the directions on the wiki except I used the BT3 installer.
Appears that something is wrong with my LILO.
I keep getting the following error when running lilo -v,
Fatal: raid_setup: stat("/dev/hda")
Below is my lilo.conf and an fdisk -l
hda4 is my root partition on my BT3 install, and hda1 is my XP install.
Lilo Config: (chroot /mnt/hda4 /bin/bash)
lba32
boot = /dev/hda
prompt
timeout = 15
#bitmap=/boot/splash.bmp
change-rules
reset
#vga = 769,771/773/792
vga = 769
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda4
label = BackTrack
read-write
other=/dev/hda1
label=Windows
table=/dev/hda
bt ~ # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 14083 113121666 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 14084 14092 72292+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 14093 14217 1004062+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 14218 14593 3020220 83 Linux
bt / # lilo -v
LILO version 22.8, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2006 John Coffman
Released 19-Feb-2007 and compiled at 01:09:42 on Jun 10 2007.
Fatal: raid_setup: stat("/dev/hda")
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Follow the dual boot video and you will not only get a better install, you will gain a small amount of command line knowledge and more importantly you will see the part where you went wrong. Whats happened is you are trying to execute lilo from the disc which does not work. You need the chroot command to get into your hard disk you just installed. Again do the dual boot video on the wiki. It was made by backtracks core developer. Anyone who doesn't do it that way is not to smart in my opinion
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Thanks pureh@te if you look at my lilo.conf you can see I did CHROOTed to my root install hda4. I solved this problem soon after I posted this.
All I did was rebooted and lilo showed up (which did not happen before) it just backtrack on it, not XP.
So I then I booted to BT3 using lilo and nano'ed my lilo.conf and windows was in there, so I then tried a lilo -v and everything worked this time. Not quite sure why the chroot of the hda4 did not work.
Anyways everything boots fine now. Thanks for you help.
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