"Christopher A. Martin" wrote:
Now that I have buttered you up, I have a BIG PROBLEM. My system WAS working beautifully. But, in my attempts to install LILO, something has gone very wrong. Everything seemed to go flawlessly, LILO started, but then I got that "Unable to open initial console" error. So I tried out the fixes mentioned in the support database after someone pointed them out to me---they didn't work. I did get it down to a problem with recognizing the boot device (/dev/hda1).
When you installed lilo, you were given the choice of installing it in one of three places, apparently you didn't install it on a floppy, which leaves either in / or the boot partition of the harddrive. Where did you install lilo? If you installed it in the boot partition, that may be the problem? Not really sure on that, I run os2's boot manager and so I installed lilo in /, but I do remember in my first attempt with rh, I made the mistake of installing it in the boot partition and ended up having to reinstall everything, but that was awhle back?
So I booted on to a Windoze boot floppy, figuring I would just do a "fdisk /MBR" to return to the original state. But, MY C DRIVE DISAPPEARED!!! I ran FDISK and it just says that the filesystem type for the first partition (C drive) is "unknown". Then from Linux, I ran Yast, which under partition info says the filesystem type for /dev/hda1 is "MS-Dos blah blah" (just like my D-drive which is fine), but when I choose a mount point (/dosc) and exit yast, it tells me that it can't mount /dev/hda1. It just says:
That sounds like the same thing that happened to me under rh. I had to delete the partition and reinstall everything to get it straightened back out:-( -- cya l8r Leon McClatchey leonmcclatchey@homemail.com Linux User 78912 (Win95 Box) - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>