How to install lilo to the MBR?

[Joseph Sinclair]

Joe,
  It sounds a  lot like your main system partition is mounted incorrectly.  All of these locations should be in /, not /mnt.   I'm guessing that you're either working with a strange setup or you're trying something a little backwards.

If you're trying to run entirely from the rescue CD, these should all work correctly to install lilo in the MBR.  If you're using the rescue CD to boot your already-installed Linux, it sounds like the fstab is perhaps a little bit off.

joe wrote:
> .
> I don't have access to Linux man pages with the rescue CD 
> so I tried the syntax you suggested and got this response:
> 
> Fatal: creat /boot/map~: No such file or directory.
> 
> Joe
> 
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: Kenneth <madhse at yahoo.com>
> To: joe at actionline.com, Main PLUG discussion list
> <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:47:23 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: How to install lilo to the MBR?
> 
>> I think you want /mnt/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
>> I don't have lilo installed to check the man page, but this seems 
>> like the right option...
>>
>>
> --- joe <joe at tlnf.com> wrote:
>>> .
>>> joe wrote:
>>>>> Lilo is installed on my system, but it is not working. 
>>>>> When I cold boot, it boots into an old Windows 98 partition 
>>>>> (hda1) that I no longer use. 
>>>>>
>>>>> So, what is the procedure and syntax to install lilo to 
>>>>> the Master boot Record? 
>>> Eric Shubes wrote: 
>>>> Boot a rescue cd to the command prompt, then
>>>> # /sbin/lilo -v
>>>> That should write your lilo.conf to the MBR
>>> Following the above instructions: 
>>> /sbin/lilo -v 
>>>
>>> Produced this response: 
>>> "bash: /sbin/lilo: No such file or directory" 
>>>
>>> So, I searched around and found lilo here: /mnt/sbin/lilo 
>>> Then I tried /mnt/sbin/lilo -v 
>>> and lilo ran, but gave this response: 
>>>
>>> "/etc/lilo.conf: No such file or directory. 
>>>
>>> the desired file is here: /mnt/etc/lilo.conf 
>>>
>>> but what syntax must I use to get this to work? 
>>>
>>>