[Tfug] LILO

[Eric Christian]

Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 02:24:42 -0700
> From: Glen Pfeiffer <glen at thepfeiffers.net>
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] LILO
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
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> On Mon May 19, 2008 at 10:56:40AM +0200, Eric Christian wrote:
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>> An install of debian 4.0r3 DVD i386 on a notebook here (Intel 
>> core 2 duo processor, Intel duo Processor)with 2 partitions,
>> a 2 GB /swap and a / partition, proceeded with a number of 
>> things going wrong, the worst being not able to install LILO, 
>> so all is not bootable as is. i suppose one could make a 
>> USB-bootstick? But, i want LILO. what to do?
>>     
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> Is there any reason you are choosing LILO? Grub is the default in 
> 4.0.
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>   
just because i know Lilo and it was allways easy to config. i did try to 
install Grub from the DVD,
but it failed too :-( . Could this be a BIOS problem, or a 
distro-hardware issue? Where are all those
here saying "its simple as shoving in a DVD". In a way they're right, I 
guess, the install went fairly well
(little things like vim failed). Only problem is, it's not bootable.
another disto? net install to get a bootable minimal sys?
Eric