New install boot problem

[Dave Brown]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 12:42:29AM -0700, Richard B. Pyne wrote:
>  On 1/7/2010 11:28 PM, Dave Brown wrote:
> > (Workaround: boot up a CD in rescue mode, running udev, then do this:
> >
> >      mount /dev/sda2 /mnt    # change to whatever your real root filesystem 
> > is
> >      cd /dev
> >      tar cvf - . | ( cd /mnt/dev; tar xvf - )
> >      mount /mnt
> >    
> 
>  This got me past the "unable to open console" problem so that I can use the 
>  CD to boot with the "root=/dev/sda3", but it still tells me that there is no 
>  bootable media unless I have the CD in.
> 
>  I have tried "lilo -M /dev/sda mbr" "lilo -b /dev/sda" both of which
>  tell me that the MBR has been updated,

My somewhat amazed question is this: why are you attempting to use lilo?
Lunar's been using grub as its standard boot loader for years now.

Heck, yesterday I installed grub 2 on my work machine and set up not
only the root filesystem, but /boot itself as RAID-backed LVM volumes.

--Dave