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Re: Questions before installing Salix
Posted: 17. Oct 2017, 19:16
by gapan
"simple" should be OK.
Re: Questions before installing Salix
Posted: 17. Oct 2017, 19:23
by Themis
Thanks, gapan. I chose “simple”.
Well, I reinstalled Salix, and the problem remains the same. Everything was OK, it ejected the install DVD, then asked me to reboot, and here I am again on the Boot Menu. It just doesn’t recognize the distro and won’t boot on it.
Is there a (secure) way to go back to MBR? Because when I launched the installation, it recognized it was GPT so I wonder if that could make any problem. I’m quite lost, now…
Re: Questions before installing Salix
Posted: 17. Oct 2017, 19:33
by gapan
Do you get the exact same error as before?
Re: Questions before installing Salix
Posted: 17. Oct 2017, 19:37
by Themis
Nope. I mean, I’ve seen no error. To me, the installation process seems to have worked perfectly. When the computer boots, it just ends up here:
https://framapic.org/Ei7XnEPHW8ux/rihl0BFPj1cd.jpg
Re: Questions before installing Salix
Posted: 17. Oct 2017, 19:40
by gapan
What happens if you move the HDD0 option to the top?
Re: Questions before installing Salix
Posted: 17. Oct 2017, 19:42
by Themis
It keeps printing this boot menu…
Edit:
When the computer is booting, right before this screen, it prints something like “Exiting Intel Boot Agent”, or something like that. Does that have something to do with the problem?
Re: Questions before installing Salix
Posted: 17. Oct 2017, 19:47
by gapan
You now have a non-EFI installation right? And LILO was installed at the end of installation (not elilo)? And you only have a / partition, no /boot or /boot/efi.
Assuming your / is in sda1, can you run this from the installation DVD and post what happens when running the lilo command at the end?
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mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
chroot /mnt
lilo -v
Re: Questions before installing Salix
Posted: 17. Oct 2017, 20:07
by Themis
Yes, I have a non-EFI installation (I guess…). LILO (not elilo, for what I’ve seen) has been installed at the end of installation, that’s right, and I have these partitions:
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Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 33556479 16.0 GiB 8200 Linux swap
2 33556480 121636863 42.0 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem
3 121636864 468862094 165.6 GiB 8302 Linux /home
Now, here we go (I skip the copyright part, etc.):
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root@salix64:/# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
chroot /mnt
lilo -v
LILO version 24.2 (released 22-November-2015)
Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Reading boot sector from /dev/sda
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not exist, disk scan bypassed
Warning: Unable to determine video adapter in use in the present system.
Using BITMAP secondary loader
Calling map_insert_data
Mapping bitmap file /boot/salix.bmp
Warning: Video adapter does not support VESA BIOS extensions needed for display of 256 colors. Boot loader will fall back to TEXT only operation.
Calling map_insert_file
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-huge-4.4.19
Added Salix *
Writing boot sector
/boot/boot.0800 exists – no boot sector backup copy made.
4 warnings were issued.
root@salix64:/#
Re: Questions before installing Salix
Posted: 17. Oct 2017, 20:33
by mimosa
That looks good! Does it boot now?
Re: Questions before installing Salix
Posted: 17. Oct 2017, 20:40
by gapan
It seems that lilo has been installed correctly. Unless there is something in the BIOS (well, EFI) settings that prevents booting from the hard drive, I have no ideas.
