Getting a new LILO boot message

Tyler Aviss tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Aug 8 16:13:29 UTC 2007


Are you actually trying to install to /dev/hda1 instead of the MBR (/dev/hda)?

Maybe if you included a copy of your lilo.conf file?


On 8/8/07, Paul King <sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> After looking at my message again, it looks as if I left out some important
> things:
>
> I am using Slackware 11
> The kernel is version 2.4.33.3
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to get LILO to show a new boot
> > message. It used to be (IIRC) that you just needed to edit the boot
> > message file (/boot/boot_message.txt) and run LILO. Now it seems to choke
> > when it sees that my /dev/hda1 is on an NT partition, and wants me to
> > somehow change the partition ID. Since this already works as it is, I
> > aborted the command. While running liloconfig doesn't "choke" and is more
> > accepting of the XP partition, it also doesn't seem to change the message
> > to the new one.
> >
> > If anyone can help with this, I would appreciate it.
> >
> > Paul King
> >
> >
> >
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