Other Help Topics :: lilo.conf on frugal

Tried the DSL one. I don't think my BIOS likes it. I can boot in using a grub cd and editing the boot options. I run the grub.dsl once inside dsl but when i do "grub-install /dev/hda" it gives me an error "/dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive." I've been stonewalled for sometime now and willing to try just about anything. Although I'd really like to avoid reflashing the bios. That pretty much scares the willies out of me.

Thanks,
Louis

I see that error all the time..
If grub won't pull the drives out of your bios,
try this command, instead of just "grub-install /dev/hda"

grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda
for a HDInstall, or

grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/hda1/boot /dev/hda
for a frugal/poormans install

Make sure you HAVE a "/boot" directory in that location before you start!
If not, make one!

Once completed, grub should work for you, and you should see a
/boot/grub directory in hda1 ( for this example, it can actually be any partition )

73
ke4nt

Sweet, making progress now. Gets as far as "Checking if '/boot/grub/stage1' exists.... no"
"Error 15: File not found"

Ok, I think the problem was that i didn't boot in using grub. When I boot into grub it says hda1 is already mounted to /cdrom. When I go to follow your frugal instructions it complains it is a read-only file system. If I boot through lilo I can mount hda1 but then don't have the stage 1 stuff. Umount of /dev/hda1 says the device is busy.

original here.