Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Jostein Berntsen <jostber@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Seems like LILO is having problems finding the right kernel. Can you enclose 
your lilo.conf and /etc/fstab?

You can boot on the DVD to get into your system again. Try to reinstall LILO 
with Yast2. Then also run '/sbin/lilo -v' in the console. And then run 
'mk_initrd'. Check if there are any error messages. Also check that you 
install LILO to the MBR, and that you tell LILO what the path to the kernel 
image is.

If you still got problems when booting, you can try to install Grub from the 
DVD. Run the command 'grub-install', which installs the Grub bootloader to 
your MBR. Then you must create a file /boot/grub/menu.lst that has the config 
for your OSes. If you need it I can send you a config example, you will set it 
up in 5 minutes. Grub is more stable for booting with dual-boot systems, and 
is more interactive at boot than LILO.

Some input:

http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/fhassel_check_mbr.html
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/0190_lilo.html
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/isys_booten.html
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/nt2.html
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/nt.html

Regards,

Jostein




>===== Original Message From Michael Norman <michaeltnorman@xxxxxxxxx> =====
>Hi
>
>Out of desperation I changed PIO to 2 on the dvd drive
>and tried again.  Eureka 11!!  It worked and installed
>with no problems.  At last.
>
>I couldn't get a very satisfactory resolution in X yet
>but I'm sure I can fix that in time.
>
>One other issue is that my usual test procedure with a
>new version/disto is to install into a separate
>partition from my main system, without LILO, reboot
>from the cd/dvd and complete the instal.  I then add
>the new test version ti LILO as installed in the mbr
>from my main system.  When I tried this with 8.0 it
>fails to boot from LILO, with a kernel panic.  Am I
>doing something wrong ?
>
>Mike
>--- Jostein Berntsen <jostber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> Been holidaying in the nice northern pre-summer
>> weather. Back now with a lot
>> of patience built up.
>>
>> I managed to install 8.0 with my CD's(DVD would not
>> boot) on my new PC. Some
>> packages was not installed for some reason, but I
>> installed them afterwards
>> and now it seems to work ok.
>>
>> I have the same experience as you with 7.1 and 7.3,
>> both installed nicely on
>> both my new and old computer, while 8.0 needed more
>> persuasion to get working.
>> To me that says that I have not a hardware problem,
>> but rather that the 8.0
>> CD's/DVD is picky on the hardware type and setup.
>> The error messages you
>> report seems to be that the installation has
>> problems talking with your
>> CD-rom, which I suppose is on hdc? The solution for
>> my new PC was to set the
>> PIO to 0 in the BIOS for the CD-RW. I see you have
>> done the same with no
>> result, have you tried with PIO 1 or 2?
>>
>
>
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