Hi there,
I've just installed Suse 7.3 on a RS6000 43P-150. The installation was working fine, but ... when I reboot the system, I'm getting this error message : Word called in boot-manager package not found. ... Failed to boot.
Of course, I could configure the multiboot way, boot on the cd 2 and boot the system, but I should prefer to find the right solution.
Thanks for you help :)
Tchao
Patrick
On Sat, Dec 13, Patrick Hartemann wrote:
Hi there,
I've just installed Suse 7.3 on a RS6000 43P-150. The installation was working fine, but ... when I reboot the system, I'm getting this error message : Word called in boot-manager package not found. ... Failed to boot.
Of course, I could configure the multiboot way, boot on the cd 2 and boot the system, but I should prefer to find the right solution.
you need a 0x41 PReP Boot partition, run fdisk -l to check if you have one. Then point the boot= line in /etc/lilo.conf to that partition and run lilo. image= should be /boot/vmlinux
Olaf Hering wrote:
On Sat, Dec 13, Patrick Hartemann wrote:
Hi there,
I've just installed Suse 7.3 on a RS6000 43P-150. The installation was working fine, but ... when I reboot the system, I'm getting this error message : Word called in boot-manager package not found. ... Failed to boot.
Of course, I could configure the multiboot way, boot on the cd 2 and boot the system, but I should prefer to find the right solution.
you need a 0x41 PReP Boot partition, run fdisk -l to check if you have one. Then point the boot= line in /etc/lilo.conf to that partition and run lilo. image= should be /boot/vmlinux
I've checked, and all is like you described ... but not running You'll find below lilo.conf and the fdisk result
# Generated by YaST2
default=linux timeout=100 boot=/dev/sda1 activate
image = /boot/vmlinux label = linux root = /dev/sda3 append = "console=ttyS0,9600"
linux:~ # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 8678 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 4 4080 41 PPC PReP Boot /dev/sda2 5 644 655360 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 645 8678 8226816 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 8678 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
Olaf Hering wrote:
On Sat, Dec 13, Patrick Hartemann wrote:
Hi there,
I've just installed Suse 7.3 on a RS6000 43P-150. The installation was working fine, but ... when I reboot the system, I'm getting this error message : Word called in boot-manager package not found. ... Failed to boot.
Of course, I could configure the multiboot way, boot on the cd 2 and boot the system, but I should prefer to find the right solution.
you need a 0x41 PReP Boot partition, run fdisk -l to check if you have one. Then point the boot= line in /etc/lilo.conf to that partition and run lilo. image= should be /boot/vmlinux
Hi Olaf,
forget the previous email. All is fine now, the issue came from the defined boot devices.
Thanks for your help :)
Tchao
Patrick
I have finally decided to bite the bullet and transition from Suse 7.1 Mac to Suse 9.0 for the PC.
Has anyone on this list done that? If so, what were the successful steps you took to transfer the data?
I'm picking up my new pc tomorrow along with the suse 9.0 software.
I decided to do this not because I'm abandoning the Mac per se...but because I need to use my mac again as a computer :-)
I guess my question is...Would I be able to just put my existing ide drive from the mac into the pc, run the pc installer and have the drive recognised? OR is it more prudent to install the pc software and then transfer the files via FTP or firewire hookup.
Any advice/help would be appreciated. :-)
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MARCUS CALAHAN melodyuk@mac6100.dhs.org
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MARCUS CALAHAN melodyuk@mac6100.dhs.org
On Thursday, April 1, 2004, at 12:13 AM, Marcus Calahan wrote:
I have finally decided to bite the bullet and transition from Suse 7.1 Mac to Suse 9.0 for the PC.
I did the same. Since then I have gone back and put Yellow Dog on one of my older macs. http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
Has anyone on this list done that? If so, what were the successful steps you took to transfer the data?
I backed up to my server and transferred everything I wanted to the new machine.
I'm picking up my new pc tomorrow along with the suse 9.0 software.
I decided to do this not because I'm abandoning the Mac per se...but because I need to use my mac again as a computer :-)
I guess my question is...Would I be able to just put my existing ide drive from the mac into the pc, run the pc installer and have the drive recognised? OR is it more prudent to install the pc software and then transfer the files via FTP or firewire hookup.
My understanding is you can not swap the drives. I also understand that if you were using SLE8 you probably could and would have to do a repair once in the new computer. ( have not tried this, but I would like to if I can ever afford SLE8) I did the reinstall and had to use the ftp and samba to transfer the data. I have found that it is a bit easier to configure a broader range of hardware under the pc version and 9.0 rocks. Yast2 has come a long way.
Any advice/help would be appreciated. :-)
There was an email on the suse-linux-e@suse.com list a while back that explained some of it. I couldn't find it this morning and I'm running out of time. I believe Chris Mahmood wrote it around Christmas if you want to search the archive.
Hope it helps. Good luck,
will
MARCUS CALAHAN melodyuk@mac6100.dhs.org
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