HD Install :: Boot to HDD with CD

What kind of hard drive install?

With a frugal install, the root is your initial ramdisk so "root=/dev/hdX" does not apply.

Not frugal, normal install.

Why on earth does it not install a bootloader (ALL other distro's dont have nay problem)

Why on earth does it always load root as read-only. I cant edit lilo.conf .. This would have saved most of my problem

I do not perform a full hd install, so I may not be the best guy to give you advice but I'll try anyway.

If you boot from the livecd, the root filesystem is a ramdisk and not your hard drive partition.

You can access it as user root by typing:

sudo su

However, much of the filesystem is symlinks back to the /KNOPPIX compressed image (a read-only filesystem on the CD disk), so it is read-only.

You can either copy the lilo.conf over to a writable directory like /home/dsl/ and edit it, OR

you can try and find the file that should be sitting on your hard drive by mounting it and looking around, ie:

mount /mnt/hda1
cd /mnt/hda1/boot/
ls

etc...

or you can use the Midnight Commander file manger if you prefer:

mc

If you need to install a bootloader, you can run the mkliloboot script, if I remember the name correctly.

Once you are done editing the file, you will need to activate your changes by running the "lilo" command.

I gave up. Its a lot of hardwork.

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