Re: installing LILO

> > is there any way of installing Lilo from the ram disk created by
> > tomsrtbt, to the hardisk of the computer? When i try it says it can't
> > be done from a ram disk.

> No, because the ram disk will not be there when you invoke a lilo boot
> (when the kernel ceases functioning, ram disks are no longer
> accessible even though the content may survive in memory).

I think he means installing it onto a hard drive when booted from a
ramdisk.  Yes, this will work, but requires you set up lilo.conf and
point to the correct boot.b file.

> > I tried to install it from nfs filesystem as well; with the -r option
> > and with chroot and the complete version of lilo, with similar results.

> You cannot lilo off a remote file system because lilo does not have the
> facilities to read a remote file system.

Again, I'm assuming he is booted from tomsrtbt, has a hard drive he
wants to fix the lilo installation on, and _also_ has an nfs filesystem
mounted, from which he is also trying to run lilo.

The *BIG* problem is that he is not posting what *actually happened*.

He says "it says it can't be done from a ram disk", which looks to me
suspiciously like a paraphrase of a half remembered error message that
was not written down.  And he says "with similar results", um, similar
to what already is not a verbatim transcript of messages received?

Advice:

	1) Post exactly what you did.  Everything you typed.  Literally.

	2) Post exactly what you saw.  Quote every message EXACTLY.

No-one is doing anything more than guessing unless we have good input...

-Tom