John Grant wrote:
I flubbed a lilo so now my SCSI HD won't boot my old 6.1 SuSE. I don't have my old 6.1 CDs anymore, but I do have a 6.2 set. Unfortunately the CD Won't boot in my SCSI CDROM drive attached to a Adaptec 2940U2W controller. Problem #1: How to get it to boot? According to the manual the Adaptec driver should be compiled into the kernel, so it should be bootable on this setup, right?
Have you ever booted a CD before? Being able to boot a CD is not necessarily a function of the kernel, but more about whether or not your CD drive and SCSI BIOS support bootability. Of course, if they both do, then to subsequently access the devices (after booting) the kernel will need the correct driver.
The good news is that I was able to boot from the 6.2 floppy. The bad news is that Yast keeps failing to read the packages on the CD. The last few lines on console 3 are:
[...] Mounting of inst-sys returns 0 Program aborted! Tue Feb 29 18:23:11 2000 ERROR: Unknown Error!, DETAIL: 0 FILE: PkgRetriever.cc LINE: 578 YaST return code is 256 (errno = 2)
I happen to have a removable IDE HD that I've been using for backups. I put this into another system and copied the files off the first CD to it, thinking I could do a HD install. That fails with the same error.
So, Problem #2: How do I get YaST to read the packages?
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