Hello all. Sorry if this has been covered already, so far in my search I haven't found anything on it.
I recently upgrade from RH9 to Fedora test2 on my Vaio Laptop (R505TS). I upgraded using the boot disk / network driver disk using ISO's over NFS on my local network. I choose upgrade.
When I booted I looked for /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode, but it wasn't there. I realized that my kernel that was booted was my custom RH9 2.4.22 kernel, and not a new Fedora kernel. My previous RH9 was running lilo so I looked in /etc/lilo.conf, the following is shown: prompt timeout=50 default=Linux boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b message=/boot/message lba32
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2061.nptl label=2.4.22-1.2061.n read-only append="root=LABEL=/" initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2061.nptl.img
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-lms3 label=Linux read-only append="root=/dev/hda5"
other=/dev/hda1 optional label=DOS
Now the problem is, when I hit TAB during the boot prompt, I only see Linux and DOS listed. OK, that is fine, I need to run lilo as root. I do that and I get this message:
# lilo Fatal: open /boot/message: No such file or directory
If I should be using GRUB how would I switch over to it (note, I haven't read the docs on this yet just asking here incase it is a easy deal)
Any help or direction would be appreciated, thanks ... (Please cc me on your reply as I'm in the digest mode)
Louis
Ah the wonders of IRC. Dant on freenode.net #fedora was able to help me out with this, aparently /boot/messages (logos?) was a RedHat thing that isn't there after the test2 upgrade, commenting out that line from /etc/lilo.conf allowed me to run 'lilo' with success.
Booting into the Kernel on a Vaio R505TS in the Docking Station still caused a problem, booting hung on the FireWire line.
Pulling the laptop out of the docking station (which the laptop connects to from the bottom via a firewire interface) lets me boot into the new kernel no problem. Wahoo!
Louis
Hello all. Sorry if this has been covered already, so far in my search I haven't found anything on it.
I recently upgrade from RH9 to Fedora test2 on my Vaio Laptop (R505TS). I upgraded using the boot disk / network driver disk using ISO's over NFS on my local network. I choose upgrade.
When I booted I looked for /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode, but it wasn't there. I realized that my kernel that was booted was my custom RH9 2.4.22 kernel, and not a new Fedora kernel. My previous RH9 was running lilo so I looked in /etc/lilo.conf, the following is shown: prompt timeout=50 default=Linux boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b message=/boot/message lba32
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2061.nptl label=2.4.22-1.2061.n read-only append="root=LABEL=/" initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2061.nptl.img
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-lms3 label=Linux read-only append="root=/dev/hda5"
other=/dev/hda1 optional label=DOS
Now the problem is, when I hit TAB during the boot prompt, I only see Linux and DOS listed. OK, that is fine, I need to run lilo as root. I do that and I get this message:
# lilo Fatal: open /boot/message: No such file or directory
If I should be using GRUB how would I switch over to it (note, I haven't read the docs on this yet just asking here incase it is a easy deal)
Any help or direction would be appreciated, thanks ... (Please cc me on your reply as I'm in the digest mode)
Louis