V6stang Posted January 25, 2004 Report Share Posted January 25, 2004 Hey everyone. I was just installing Mandrake 9.2, and the installer came up with an error when trying to install the bootloader to the MBR, but let me continue anyway, so I did. When I rebooted, I got that screen full of 99 99 99 etc. I figured that was no problem, booted from the install CD, went into rescue mode, and reinstalled the Windows bootloader (just to make sure I hadn't horked my XP install). That all worked great. Rebooted again, and tried to use the rescue mode to reinstall LILO, and here's the error it spit out: Fatal: /dev/: neither a reg. file nor a block dev. Windows is booting fine from it's own bootloader, and Mandrake is booting fine from a floppy, but I'd love to be able to install LILO and boot both from a menu. Any idea what the above error means, and how I can fix it? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted January 25, 2004 Report Share Posted January 25, 2004 Are you installing lilo to the default location in the mbr of hda??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V6stang Posted January 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2004 Yeah, I set it to install on hda's MBR during the initial install (which didn't work). Using the rescue mode GUI, I don't see that it even gives me the option of installing LILO somewhere else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted January 25, 2004 Report Share Posted January 25, 2004 Maybe the lilo file on the install cd is corrupt. I would either download a new file or try grub! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted January 26, 2004 Report Share Posted January 26, 2004 Ix, that doesn't make sense to me. The install cd has no lilo file. What it does is run the command lilo on the lilo.conf of the installation it finds. My guess is, something is wrong with that. To V6stang, could you post your /etc/lilo.conf file here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted January 26, 2004 Report Share Posted January 26, 2004 I was just installing Mandrake 9.2, and the installer came up with an error when trying to install the bootloader to the MBR, but let me continue anyway, so I did. B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V6stang Posted January 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2004 I was just installing Mandrake 9.2, and the installer came up with an error when trying to install the bootloader to the MBR, but let me continue anyway, so I did. B) Heh. Well, I was a little tired, and I figured what the heck. Anyway, I seem to have accidentially fixed it. I ran through the installer again, performing an "upgrade" instead of a fresh install. It still gave me an error when it tried to install LILO, so I changed it to grub and that seems to have worked. Anyway, thanks for the tips. Next up, I need to wade through linmodems.org and try and figure out how to get my LT 56k working... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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