LILO Question
by MTCAT from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5DJK5)
Hi everyone,
I've installed Slackware 12 (2.6.21.5) on a PC104+ form factor SBC, running a VortexDX3 CPU.
When installing (off a pen drive) I wasn't able to boot the huge.smp kernel, it would hang after detecting 2 CPU's. So I booted up huge.s and was able to install using that, at least having something to try out, albeit with only one core being recognized at the moment.
I did have some difficulty installing LILO though, I initially tried "simple" method but that didn't work at all, so I then re-did the entire install and next time through I tried "simple" again, no go, and then I used "expert", running from within liloconfig (after exting install), and that got me something working.
When I boot up right now, my only choice is "Slack12", as I entered when I ran liloconfig. However, when I look in /etc/lilo.conf, there is no "Slack12" label there at all !, and the timeout behaviour I get (2 seconds) is not what's in /etc/lilo.conf, also, /etc/lilo.conf has a (non-existent) Windows entry, and also refers to a boot message that I never see.
So where is the lilo.conf file that I'm actually using ?
I would like to play around with lilo.conf and try to get the smp version loaded so I can make use of both VortexDX3 cores, but I'm leery of horsing around with /etc/lilo.conf as this doesn't seem to be the lilo.conf that's actually getting used ??
Sorry if I'm not explaining this very well, my first Slackware installation.
Thanks in advance for the help.
I've installed Slackware 12 (2.6.21.5) on a PC104+ form factor SBC, running a VortexDX3 CPU.
When installing (off a pen drive) I wasn't able to boot the huge.smp kernel, it would hang after detecting 2 CPU's. So I booted up huge.s and was able to install using that, at least having something to try out, albeit with only one core being recognized at the moment.
I did have some difficulty installing LILO though, I initially tried "simple" method but that didn't work at all, so I then re-did the entire install and next time through I tried "simple" again, no go, and then I used "expert", running from within liloconfig (after exting install), and that got me something working.
When I boot up right now, my only choice is "Slack12", as I entered when I ran liloconfig. However, when I look in /etc/lilo.conf, there is no "Slack12" label there at all !, and the timeout behaviour I get (2 seconds) is not what's in /etc/lilo.conf, also, /etc/lilo.conf has a (non-existent) Windows entry, and also refers to a boot message that I never see.
So where is the lilo.conf file that I'm actually using ?
I would like to play around with lilo.conf and try to get the smp version loaded so I can make use of both VortexDX3 cores, but I'm leery of horsing around with /etc/lilo.conf as this doesn't seem to be the lilo.conf that's actually getting used ??
Sorry if I'm not explaining this very well, my first Slackware installation.
Thanks in advance for the help.