Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[tkelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (tkelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)]

Hello,

I have a problem:  I can't boot linux; the SuSE boot floppy is somehow
damaged and no longer works, I have a SCSI cdrom so it is not bootable, and
Yast crashed (I could not even kill -9 it) when trying to make a boot disk
for my system (and I was installing lilo onto the boot disk).

So, my question is, where is the floppy image for the suse boot disk that
came with the distribution?  I can't find any reference to this in the
manual nor does it seem to be anywhere on the CDROM - or is it in the
/images dir on CD1?  It isn't obvious which one it is.  I see the rawrite
program but no boot disk image.

Second, I was going through the initial install process and had gotten to
installing LILO.  I'm installing linux onto a jaz disk partition /dev/sdb1
(1GB).  There should be no problem with the 1024 cylinder limit, but lilo
would not let me choose /dev/sdb1 "/" as a partition to boot because it was
beyond the 1024th cylinder. <???>  I've installed linux - several
distributions - on this disk and never had a problem before.  Never had a
problem with Suse the first time I installed it either.


--

"The three things were damnably clever constructions of their kind, 
and were furnished with ingenious mettalic clamps to attach them to
organic developments of which I dare not form any conjecture."
                                               -H.P. Lovecraft

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