Navigation News GUI Programming "man of the month" Bookreviews Projects Languages Tutorials/Howtos Tools Crew My hardware Old project page at SF My blog!	Well, this page here shall inform you a little bit about lilo's error message: volid error What lilo wants to say to you that it can't scan all volume id's on your harddisk. It (probably) specifically means the usb hard disk or the usb stick you recently had on the machine. Although you unmounted it cleanly it still exists in /proc/partitions ( cat /proc/partitions ). If you look what lilo -v (or -v2, -v3, -v4 or -v5) says you see that it has problems with /dev/sda and sda1 (might be sdb, sdc, ... in your case). A reboot without the usb device attached would solve the problem OR you simply update your lilo to 22.5.8-beta4 or later. That version has a feature to make lilo not look at specific devices: add disk=/dev/sda inaccessible to mark the device as not accessible and not volid lookable :) This has to be done in /etc/lilo.conf! I actually didn't test this, but the maintainer of lilo told this me and I hope this page ends up in google.com/linux so that people will find it :) Cheers and if you have any comments, mail me, robos! Last update: Saturday, 11-Oct-2008 14:32:44 CEST	Links Home Comments, Errata? Contact robos! Page counter: 4173