Reactos and Lilo

[dalfa the enlightenedone]

Hi,

i want to try ReactOS on my real hd but
i have the question, it can be load from
lilo ?




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[dalfa@MDK dalfa]$ cat .firma 

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[Devin Smith]

It's not easy but yes it can be done as this is how I have it at home since 
Grub never works for me. Essentially my LILO boots freeldr.

On 8/26/05, dalfa the enlightenedone <dalfa.theenlightenedone(a)gmail.com> 
wrote: 
>   
>  Hi,
>  
>  i want to try ReactOS on my real hd but
>  i have the question, it can be load from
>  lilo ?
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  --
>  [dalfa@MDK dalfa]$ cat .firma
>  
>  [UsuarioGnu/Linux326018]
>  <Ymessenger> dalfa_id
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[dalfa the enlightenedone]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:46:59 -0700
Devin Smith <devinsmith(a)gmail.com> wrote:

|It's not easy but yes it can be done as this is how I have it at home since 
|Grub never works for me. Essentially my LILO boots freeldr.
|

greats news, it can be done :)

do me a great favor, and paste your lilo.conf :-)

[Devin Smith]

>   greats news, it can be done :)
>  
>  do me a great favor, and paste your lilo.conf :-) 
  Here you go:
 # LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/hde
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
prompt
timeout = 300
lba32
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
vga = 773
# Normal VGA console
# vga = normal
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
# vga=791
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k
# vga=790
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
# vga=773
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
# vga=788
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k
# vga=787
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
# vga=771
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k
# vga=785
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k
# vga=784
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256
# vga=769
# ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hde2
label = Linux
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
other = /dev/hde1
label = Windows
other = /dev/hdf1
label = FreeLdr
 
 Actually here is how it is setup:
 Drive 1:
Partition 1: Windows XP Professional (NTFS)
Partition 2: Slackware Linux 10.x (ext3fs)
 Drive 2:
Partition 1: ReactOS (used to be my shared drive between OSes) (FAT32)
Partition 2: Extra ext3fs partition.
 One thing to notice here is that ReactOS is on my second hard drive 
(FAT32). This makes it a lot easier except that the BPB was WRONG on my 
second drive.
 Now to get this working I had to hack the fat32.asm so that the Freeloader 
installer (the one you run in XP) correctly writes the stuff to the second 
drive. By default it did not do this. Actually it turned out that one of the 
developers had this problem as well. I don't remember his name or irc handle 
but he made the changes to fat.asm and helped me with fat32.asm. He checked 
the fat.asm into CVS under the handle phreak.
  Hope this helps...
 - Devin

[Lucio Diaz]

In my experience Grub works with freeloader (at least before i reinstalled grub and by
accident erased the freeloader MBR). I am at work, but once at home i can get you my Grub
configuration file.

Devin Smith <devinsmith(a)gmail.com> escribió:It's not easy but yes it can be done
as this is how I have it at home since Grub never works for me. Essentially my LILO boots
freeldr.

On 8/26/05, dalfa the enlightenedone <dalfa.theenlightenedone(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi,

i want to try ReactOS on my real hd but
i have the question, it can be load from
lilo ?




--
[dalfa@MDK dalfa]$ cat .firma

[UsuarioGnu/Linux326018]
<Ymessenger> dalfa_id
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[Devin Smith]

Actually in this case I think it is not my config but some problem with my 
motherboard or the HPT IDE Raid chipset. I'm not using RAID but the chipset 
does require special circumstances.

On 8/26/05, Lucio Diaz <reactos_translate(a)yahoo.es> wrote: 
>   
>  In my experience Grub works with freeloader (at least before i reinstalled 
>  grub and by accident erased the freeloader MBR). I am at work, but once at 
>  home i can get you my Grub configuration file.
>  
>  *Devin Smith <devinsmith(a)gmail.com>* escribió: 
>  
>  It's not easy but yes it can be done as this is how I have it at home 
>  since Grub never works for me. Essentially my LILO boots freeldr.
>  
>  On 8/26/05, dalfa the enlightenedone <dalfa.theenlightenedone(a)gmail.com> 
>  wrote: 
> >   
> >  Hi,
> >  
> >  i want to try ReactOS on my real hd but
> >  i have the question, it can be load from
> >  lilo ?
> >  
> >  
> >  
> >  
> >  --
> >  [dalfa@MDK dalfa]$ cat .firma
> >  
> >  [UsuarioGnu/Linux326018]
> >  <Ymessenger> dalfa_id
> >  <WebPage> http://dalfa.tk
> >  <WebPage> http://dalfa.no-ip.org
> >  <Jabber> dalfa(a)jabber.org
> >  <skype> theenligthenedone
> >  <aMSN> dalfa.theenlightenedone(en)gmail.com
> >  <Blog> http://drakedalfa.blogspot.com/
> >  <aim> drakedalfa
> >  
> >  
> >  -> Y la verdad os hara libres...
> >  - Hechos 4: 12
> >  - Romanos 10: 9-13
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[Hartmut Birr]

Hi,

if your disks are not connected to the standard ide ports, you have to
integrate the ide drivers in the boot cd. Look at
http://www.reactos.com/wiki/index.php/Disk_and_SCSI_miniport_drivers. It
may work. 

- Hartmut

Devin Smith wrote:

>   Actually in this case I think it is not my config but
> some problem
>  with my motherboard or the HPT IDE Raid chipset. I'm not using RAID
>  but the chipset does require special circumstances.
>

[Lucio Diaz]

It can not be loaded directly with lilo, but you can chainload it like you´d do with
windows. Only problem is that 0.2.7 have a critical bug, that stop the install process of
ReactOS, the developers are still working on the bug. I would recomend you to download the
liveCD and run it in real software (no install, no bug).

 
-->>¿Qué es GNU? ¡Gnu No es Unix!
Richard Stallman.

 

dalfa the enlightenedone <dalfa.theenlightenedone(a)gmail.com> escribió:
Hi,

i want to try ReactOS on my real hd but
i have the question, it can be load from
lilo ?




-- 
[dalfa@MDK dalfa]$ cat .firma 

[UsuarioGnu/Linux326018]
dalfa_id
http://dalfa.tk
http://dalfa.no-ip.org
dalfa(a)jabber.org
theenligthenedone
dalfa.theenlightenedone(en)gmail.com
http://drakedalfa.blogspot.com/
drakedalfa


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[Romain HERAULT]

Is it a bug or a functionality?

I've got GRUB on my mbr to boot other OSes (Linux, ...) So when i
decided  to install Reactos , i made a copy of my MBR and  was prepared
to boot on knoppix in order to backup it after the Reactos installation.
But "hopefully" the mbr was not touch, and only the freeldr.sys and
freeldr.ini was install on the hard drive apparently because of the bug
you mentioned. After that I 've just had to add the correct entry in the
menu.lst of grub to boot Reactos:

title ReactOS
root (hd0,0)
kernel /freeldr.sys

So for me, and I think for other people too, it is the best way Reactos
can install itslef.

When you will correct the bug, can you had a third boot installation way
(not MBR, not Floppy) that just install freeldr.sys and freeldr.ini on
the hard drive, but does not touch the MBR?

I've yet ask that for 0.2.6.

Romain HERAULT

Lucio Diaz a écrit :

>   It can not be loaded directly with lilo, but you can
> chainload it like
>  you´d do with windows. Only problem is that 0.2.7 have a critical bug,
>  that stop the install process of ReactOS, the developers are still
>  working on the bug. I would recomend you to download the liveCD and
>  run it in real software (no install, no bug).
>   
>  -->>
>
>
>        ¿Qué es GNU? ¡Gnu No es Unix!
>
>  Richard Stallman.
>
>   
>
>
>  */dalfa the enlightenedone <dalfa.theenlightenedone(a)gmail.com>/* escribió:
>
>      Hi,
>
>      i want to try ReactOS on my real hd but
>      i have the question, it can be load from
>      lilo ?
>
>
>
>
>      -- 
>      [dalfa@MDK dalfa]$ cat .firma
>
>      [UsuarioGnu/Linux326018]
>      dalfa_id
>      http://dalfa.tk
>      http://dalfa.no-ip.org
>      dalfa(a)jabber.org
>      theenligthenedone
>      dalfa.theenlightenedone(en)gmail.com
>      http://drakedalfa.blogspot.com/
>      drakedalfa
>
>
>      -> Y la verdad os hara libres...
>      - Hechos 4: 12
>      - Romanos 10: 9-13
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[Lucio Diaz]

We are probably not talking about the same bug... the
installation hangs, COMPLETLY, without installing
anything. Thats the bug i am talking about, tested in
two computers (real hardware) with quite diferent
compositions.

 --- Romain HERAULT <romain.d.herault(a)wanadoo.fr>
escribió:

>   Is it a bug or a functionality?
>  
>  I've got GRUB on my mbr to boot other OSes (Linux,
>  ...) So when i
>  decided  to install Reactos , i made a copy of my
>  MBR and  was prepared
>  to boot on knoppix in order to backup it after the
>  Reactos installation.
>  But "hopefully" the mbr was not touch, and only the
>  freeldr.sys and
>  freeldr.ini was install on the hard drive apparently
>  because of the bug
>  you mentioned. After that I 've just had to add the
>  correct entry in the
>  menu.lst of grub to boot Reactos:
>  
>  title ReactOS
>  root (hd0,0)
>  kernel /freeldr.sys
>  
>  So for me, and I think for other people too, it is
>  the best way Reactos
>  can install itslef.
>  
>  When you will correct the bug, can you had a third
>  boot installation way
>  (not MBR, not Floppy) that just install freeldr.sys
>  and freeldr.ini on
>  the hard drive, but does not touch the MBR?
>  
>  I've yet ask that for 0.2.6.
>  
>  Romain HERAULT
>  
>  Lucio Diaz a écrit :
>  
> >   It can not be loaded directly with lilo, but you
>  can chainload it like
> >   you´d do with windows. Only problem is that 0.2.7
>  have a critical bug,
> >   that stop the install process of ReactOS, the
>  developers are still
> >   working on the bug. I would recomend you to
>  download the liveCD and
> >   run it in real software (no install, no bug).
> >   
> >  -->>
> >
> >
> >        ¿Qué es GNU? ¡Gnu No es Unix!
> >
> >  Richard Stallman.
> >
> >   
> >
> >
> >  */dalfa the enlightenedone 
>  <dalfa.theenlightenedone(a)gmail.com>/* escribió:
> >  
> >      Hi,
> >
> >      i want to try ReactOS on my real hd but
> >      i have the question, it can be load from
> >      lilo ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >      -- 
> >      [dalfa@MDK dalfa]$ cat .firma
> >
> >      [UsuarioGnu/Linux326018]
> >      dalfa_id
> >      http://dalfa.tk
> >      http://dalfa.no-ip.org
> >      dalfa(a)jabber.org
> >      theenligthenedone
> >      dalfa.theenlightenedone(en)gmail.com
> >      http://drakedalfa.blogspot.com/
> >      drakedalfa
> >
> >
> >      -> Y la verdad os hara libres...
> >      - Hechos 4: 12
> >      - Romanos 10: 9-13
> >      
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[Devin Smith]

Well, I think without looking at debug logs we wont know.. 

On 8/28/05, Lucio Diaz <reactos_translate(a)yahoo.es> wrote: 
>   
>  We are probably not talking about the same bug... the
>  installation hangs, COMPLETLY, without installing
>  anything. Thats the bug i am talking about, tested in
>  two computers (real hardware) with quite diferent
>  compositions.
>  
>  --- Romain HERAULT <romain.d.herault(a)wanadoo.fr>
>  escribió:
>  
> >   Is it a bug or a functionality?
> >
> >  I've got GRUB on my mbr to boot other OSes (Linux,
> >  ...) So when i
> >  decided to install Reactos , i made a copy of my
> >  MBR and was prepared
> >  to boot on knoppix in order to backup it after the
> >  Reactos installation.
> >  But "hopefully" the mbr was not touch, and only the
> >  freeldr.sys and
> >  freeldr.ini was install on the hard drive apparently
> >  because of the bug
> >  you mentioned. After that I 've just had to add the
> >  correct entry in the
> >  menu.lst of grub to boot Reactos:
> >
> >  title ReactOS
> >  root (hd0,0)
> >  kernel /freeldr.sys
> >
> >  So for me, and I think for other people too, it is
> >  the best way Reactos
> >  can install itslef.
> >
> >  When you will correct the bug, can you had a third
> >  boot installation way
> >  (not MBR, not Floppy) that just install freeldr.sys
> >  and freeldr.ini on
> >  the hard drive, but does not touch the MBR?
> >
> >  I've yet ask that for 0.2.6.
> >
> >  Romain HERAULT
> >
> >  Lucio Diaz a écrit :
> >
> > >   It can not be loaded directly with lilo, but you
> >  can chainload it like
> > >   you´d do with windows. Only problem is that 0.2.7
> >  have a critical bug,
> > >   that stop the install process of ReactOS, the
> >  developers are still
> > >   working on the bug. I would recomend you to
> >  download the liveCD and
> > >   run it in real software (no install, no bug).
> > >
> > >  -->>
> > >
> > >
> > >  ¿Qué es GNU? ¡Gnu No es Unix!
> > >
> > >  Richard Stallman.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  */dalfa the enlightenedone 
> >  <dalfa.theenlightenedone(a)gmail.com>/* escribió:
> > >  
> > >  Hi,
> > >
> > >  i want to try ReactOS on my real hd but
> > >  i have the question, it can be load from
> > >  lilo ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  --
> > >  [dalfa@MDK dalfa]$ cat .firma
> > >
> > >  [UsuarioGnu/Linux326018]
> > >  dalfa_id
> > >  http://dalfa.tk
> > >  http://dalfa.no-ip.org
> > >  dalfa(a)jabber.org
> > >  theenligthenedone
> > >  dalfa.theenlightenedone(en)gmail.com
> > >  http://drakedalfa.blogspot.com/
> > >  drakedalfa
> > >
> > >
> > >  -> Y la verdad os hara libres...
> > >  - Hechos 4: 12
> > >  - Romanos 10: 9-13
> > >  
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[Lennart Aangeenbrug]

Lucio Diaz schreef:

>   It can not be loaded directly with lilo, but you can
> chainload it like 
>  you´d do with windows. Only problem is that 0.2.7 have a critical bug, 
>  that stop the install process of ReactOS, the developers are still 
>  working on the bug. I would recomend you to download the liveCD and 
>  run it in real software (no install, no bug).
>    
Does anyone knows how to install ReactOs with XOSL bootmanager?

XOSL is a free bootmanager, wich you easily can find with google :-) 
(first hit).

I've divided my HDD 0  in 4 partitions (0) XOSL, 32mb (1) Win XP (2) 
ReactOS (4) Data (i've more HDD's, but that's not relevant here). 
Windows was already installed, but now i'm not able to install ReactOs 
proberly into the (2) partition. Is there any trick to do this? XOSL 
starts, after the bios searched for the bootable options.

gr, Lennart