Bug 46836

Summary: Lilo not installed - error in /etc/lilo.conf
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Inger Karin Haarbye <inger>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 7.3   
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Hardware: i386   
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Description Inger Karin Haarbye 2001-07-01 14:22:49 UTC
Description of Problem:

Beta1-installation on /dev/hda3 (29-421 cylinder on HD). Choosing lilo 
instead of grub, bootloader on /dev/hda3 instead of mbr. 


Actual Results:

Lilo was not installed - had to boot from floppy. Got errors when trying 
to run "lilo":

1) looks like lilo dont like the label:
Syntax error near line 8 in file /etc/lilo.conf

I corrected the label to "Red Hat Linux" (with quotes), this seems to 
solve this problem, but:

2) when I now run lilo I get:

Added Red Hat Linux *
Skipping hda2

This is because you have "other=hda2" instead of "other=/dev/hda2"

Attachment: original /etc/lilo.conf created by installer, and the same 
file after editing.

Comment 1 Inger Karin Haarbye 2001-07-01 14:23:39 UTC
Created attachment 22347 [details]
lilo.conf created by installer

Comment 2 Inger Karin Haarbye 2001-07-01 14:24:21 UTC
Created attachment 22348 [details]
edited lilo.conf (working)

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2001-07-06 17:01:28 UTC
Fixed in internal trees.  Please reopen if you see this with later betas