* Jostein Berntsen
On Sunday 10 November 2002 05:30, SuSEnixER wrote:
I have installed 8.1 from dvd successfully, but...
I boot from floppy and my floppy is an ide.device, hdb. It is an ls120 drive. I have no problems with 7.3 and lilo.
The installation of 8.1 did not make a floppy boot image, complained that there was no /dev/fd0, correctly. So I cd /boot/grub and grub-install '(hd1)'
An image was written to the floppy disk, but when I try to boot, I get the text messages progressing to "GRUB" and the cursor advances one more space on the same line and everything stops. The keyboard is still accessable and I can ctrl-alt-del reboot but other keystrokes are not presented to the display and only fill the keyboard-buffer, then click.
Grub is new to me. I have perused the red-hat help files, the suse info files and the included manuals but to no avail.
I can boot with the install dvd, but that is time consuming and requires that I make a change in the cmos from floppy --> cdrom. I need to go back and forth until I get 8.1 parameters set (mail, fetchmail, procmail, etc)
Boot with the DVD, and go into Yast to make a new bootdisk. You find that option under System. Make sure that the floppy is new or not corrupted before making the bootdisk.
I cannot make a floppy with Yast. Yast will not recognize that the floppy drive is /dev/hdb0, not /dev/fd0
A good resource for configuring Grub: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622
More: I have an add-on pci-ide 100x adapter with a 100gb (/dev/hde/) attached. Also hda is 100gb and hdd is 24gb, hdc is a dvd/cd-rw (plextor). hdb is an ls120 ide floppy drive. Previously I used lilo, maybe I will have to use lilo for suse 8.1 ?? -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org