lakelover Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 I've read many of the Q&A on boot loader problems. Following advice, here, I got out the Mandriva 2006 installation CD, went to "reinstall boot loader" and got this message: "run_program can not output in /ropot/temp/.drakx-stderr.1347 (mode'>') lilo failed: at /usr/lib/libDrakX/boot loader.pm line 1238, <STDIN> line 1." do I do now? Jerry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 How did you attempt it booting from the disk? Did you use the rescue method? Did you use the option on the menu to reinstall bootloader? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakelover Posted February 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 I used the rescue method and the option to reinstall the boot loader. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 Can you paste here your /etc/lilo.conf ? Just use a liveCD, and mount your root HD partition, then browse to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakelover Posted February 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 (edited) Can you be more specific. I went to "Mount your partitions under /mnt," which gave me the message "/mnt ready." I then cd'd to /mnt then to /etc but could not find lilol.conf. Where do I go from here? I failed to say that this problem came up after I resized my windows partition to give more to the linux partition. However, I was able to boot mandriva and to windows after the resizing, until a day after. Also, after resizing the partition linux would not closed down properly causing me to manually turn off the computer. I really appreciate your help. Edited February 2, 2006 by lakelover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 after you mount your partitions under /mnt, you have to issue the command; chroot /mnt then; cd /etc and you should see lilo.conf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakelover Posted February 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 I have my problem partially solved. I hate to say this but I paid a computer place $91 to get the boot loader working. The reason, I have a couple of projects demanding attention and I couldn't take the time to fiigure things out myself. There are still some problems, however. I resized the xp partition to give more to a linux partition becuase it was full. The computer guy discovered that all my back ups were going on the same partition. I have an external IOMEGA drive that I've been using for backups, and did not realize that it was not being used. He couldn't give me an answer to why the backups were going on the linux partition. I have temporarily disabled the backups (I hope). By the way, one backup file was 9.9 g, and dated the day I resized the partition. I'm guessing that seeing a change in the partition Mandriva backed up the entire partition. I also have a problem with shutting down. Mandriva doesn't want to shut down. I'll appreciate all suggestions on these two issues. How do I setup and make sure the backups are going on the IOMEGA HD and not on the linux partition? And how do I correct the "no-shutdown" action. It seems that all my problems started with the backup files and was then exasperated when I resized the partitions. Jerry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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