Trouble installing/booting Linux

[Dragoon209]

Hello,

I'm trying to get mineOS Crux installed on my unmanaged VDS. I had the NFO team upload the 64 bit iso, and the install goes well, right up until the end, where it tries to establish a boot loader.

By default, it wants to install lilo, which doesn't seem to understand the Xen virtual hard disk structure. It fails out with :
'# lilo
Fatal: Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xca00'

After doing some research, it looks like this is a bug in lilo, but I have been unsuccessful finding a work around. The VDS backend exposes the hard disks up as 'xvda' and 'xvdb' instead of the usual 'hda' or 'sda'. This seems to cause the bulk of the issues.

Grub seems to also be available on the live CD, but I am unable to install it. I think its because the environment is left in a chroot'ed state after the install script, but i'm not experienced enough to figure it out.

Any suggestions? I would prefer to use Crux, as its simple, and the scripting and setup provided with MineOS crux is excellent for a well-trimmed and speedy Minecraft server.

I had already opened a ticket with NFO, but unfortunately the Support Tech was not experienced in this issue, and suggested I hit the forums.

Thanks!

[Edge100x]

The existence of xvda and xvdb mean that the kernel on the boot CD is detecting that it is running on Xen and switching to PV drivers, disabling the emulated (sda/sdb) drivers in the process. It's odd that lilo doesn't work with this.

If you type "exit" to get out of the chrooted environment, are you able to use grub?

[Dragoon209]

The existence of xvda and xvdb mean that the kernel on the boot CD is detecting that it is running on Xen and switching to PV drivers, disabling the emulated (sda/sdb) drivers in the process. It's odd that lilo doesn't work with this.

If you type "exit" to get out of the chrooted environment, are you able to use grub?

Ahh, linux. Always so much to learn.

Thanks for the reply! This actually got stuck in my junk mail, and in the meantime, I had found another linux distro that preloaded grub.


I was unaware that you could 'exit' out of a chrooted environment. I'm happy with the distro I am on now, but I'll have to give that a try next time. Thanks for your support!