[Solved] Proper use of lilo with new 'from=' cheatcode
Posted: 18 Jan 2013, 15:35
I use lilo for booting my various OS on several computers. lilo works fine in v1.2 with the old cheatcodes 'from_dev=' and 'from_dir=', however when I try to use the new cheatcode 'from=' (in my case I am using 'from=/mnt/sda5/porteus2') I get an error during boot up saying that the *.sgn file is not there. But the *.sgn file is right in /mnt/sda5/porteus2 in my system. lilo was not included in v2.0-rc1, so I booted the original v1.2 iso in order to run my new lilo config file. Everything boots fine except v2.0-rc1. The section relative to v2.0-rc1 in my lilo.conf (frugal install) is:
image=/mnt/sda5/slmap/vmlinuz2
password = ******
initrd=/mnt/sda5/slmap/initrd2.xz
label=XFCE-2.0rc1
APPEND="from=/mnt/sda5/porteus2 xfce nohd nomagic rootcopy=/mnt/sda5/porteus2/rootcopy volume=25%"
What am I doing wrong? Also how do I get Porteus to boot in text mode? I've tried to add '3' to the append line but it didn't work in v1.2. Thanks for your help.
image=/mnt/sda5/slmap/vmlinuz2
password = ******
initrd=/mnt/sda5/slmap/initrd2.xz
label=XFCE-2.0rc1
APPEND="from=/mnt/sda5/porteus2 xfce nohd nomagic rootcopy=/mnt/sda5/porteus2/rootcopy volume=25%"
What am I doing wrong? Also how do I get Porteus to boot in text mode? I've tried to add '3' to the append line but it didn't work in v1.2. Thanks for your help.