trouble with lilosetup

[mimosa]

I installed lilosetup in my Salix 13.0 xfce, and it appears in the System menu, but does nothing. From the CLI,

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root[tim]# lilosetup
bash: lilosetup: command not found
root[tim]# /usr/sbin/lilosetup.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/lilosetup.py", line 953, in <module>
    LiloSetup()
  File "/usr/sbin/lilosetup.py", line 434, in __init__
    setup_partition_list()
  File "/usr/sbin/lilosetup.py", line 386, in setup_partition_list
    operating_system = line.split(':')[1].split()[0]
IndexError: list index out of range

The same thing from my fairly recent USB stick install of Salix 13.1.latest, where lilosetup was already installed.

I just used the ncurses version (having installed Arch on this machine), and it worked perfectly, so perhaps this is more a bug report than a problem.

[Akuna]

Hi Mimosa, which version of LiloSetup did you use?
If it is an older one, can you tell me if this version produces the same error?
=> http://people.salixos.org/akuna/livetoo ... h-1plb.txz
Tx

[mimosa]

Morning Akuna,

Looks like this is the same, which is not surprising because I only just installed it:

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root[tim]# spkg -i /home/tim/linux_software/lilosetup-0.2.6-noarch-1plb.txz 
Skipping package lilosetup-0.2.6-noarch-1plb (package with same base name is already installed)...
root[tim]# slapt-get -l | grep lilosetup
lilosetup-0.2.6-noarch-1plb [inst=yes]: LiloSetup (GUI utility to setup LILO)

The significant thing is perhaps that this machine still has the version of 13.0 you helped me get working some time ago. But in that case, why did my "Brazilianised" USB stick also give trouble with lilosetup, when it is quite recent and in most respects a conventional 13.1? I should add I've used lilosetup before, and it's great.In fact I think I may even have used it on this machine, because when I deleted some of those distrohopping partitions that caused all the trouble in the first place, Salix's / got renumbered and I had to resinstall the bootloader. I must have done that from a USB stick (maybe I had just used it to run Gparted).

Can't get Arch to work, by the way - the installed version can't see eth0 (or wlan0) though the install CD has no problem with either. That'll teach me to mess about with, ahem, other distros I've learned a little bit more about networking, though.

[Akuna]

Maybe you found a new bug

Could you give me the output of the following commands:

fdisk -l

and:

parted /dev/sda print

Tx

[mimosa]

Hi Akuna,

I'll post those when I get back on that machine.

Incidentally, should I be able to run lilosetup from a USB stick to reinstall Lilo on sda? When I tried to do so on this machine, lilosetup made some complaint about the wrong drive. The reason I wanted to do so was because here, I now have Arch (with xfce, not at all as pretty as Salix, by some way, but it does work, with daily wpa supplication) and I appear to have garbled my Salix / partition with gparted; but I can see all the files when I mount it from Arch, and I'm hoping reinstalling the bootloader might bring it back! If not, I'll put Salix Fluxbox on top of it (I was waiting for the live version to see what this looks like). That will involve a salutary hour or two catching up on my backing up, including some large ongoing torrents.

[mimosa]

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root[tim]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0001d728

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        1673    13438341    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            5229        9119    31254457+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda3   *        9311       19457    81505777+   5  Extended
/dev/sda4            9120        9310     1534207+  82  Linux swap
/dev/sda5           10266       13831    28643863+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6           13832       15789    15727603+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7           15790       16728     7542486   83  Linux
/dev/sda8           16729       19457    21920661   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

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root[tim]# parted /dev/sda print
Model: ATA WDC WD1600AAJS-0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system     Flags
 1      32.3kB  13.8GB  13.8GB  primary   ntfs
 2      43.0GB  75.0GB  32.0GB  primary   fat32           lba
 4      75.0GB  76.6GB  1571MB  primary   linux-swap(v1)
 3      76.6GB  160GB   83.5GB  extended                  boot
 5      84.4GB  114GB   29.3GB  logical   reiserfs
 6      114GB   130GB   16.1GB  logical   ext2
 7      130GB   138GB   7724MB  logical   ext4
 8      138GB   160GB   22.4GB  logical   ext4

sda5 and sda6 are salix / and some old backed up data

sda7 and sda8 are arch / and /home (installation failed on this machine because I installed something optional called linux_firmare, which sounds useful, doesn't it, but conflicted with whatever the default is, which actually would have done the job, as my other machine with the same hardware can testify). These are new partitions I created by shrinking the backup partition on sda6.

[Akuna]

Ok, could you please also give me the output of

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LANG=C os-prober

Tx.

[mimosa]

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tim[~]$ LANG=C os-prober
bash: os-prober: command not found
tim[~]$ su
Password: 
root[tim]# LANG=C os-prober
  No volume groups found
/dev/sda1:Microsoft Windows XP Professional:Windows:chain
/dev/sda7::Arch:linux

[Akuna]

OK Thanks.

Working on it.

[Akuna]

Could you try this test package please?
http://people.salixos.org/akuna/testing ... h-1plb.txz
Tx.