Hi all, I got an Abit BP-6 motherboard and a 28 GB Seagate UDMA drive for my new workstation. I installed Gentus 2.0 on the box but it was such a piece of sh*t, that I wiped it and installed SuSE 6.3 after I snagged all the hard drive geometry, etc., out of the log files. Installation went great and I installed LILO on a floppy, figuring I was going to have to do some tweaking to get it to boot right, even though YaST appended the LBA geometry (hdc=3467,255,67) to the config file. I made sure the all the boot partition lives below sector 1024. So I booted from the floppy and made it to "LI". I mounted the drive from the rescue system on CD-ROM and edited lilo.conf like the SuSE support database said I should. I ran LILO and it said it couldn't find lilo.conf. So I tried copying lilo.conf to the RAMdisk and re-ran it. The floppy drive lights and then starts to spin and I get the message, "Sorry, don't understand 0x0102", and everything stops. So I think it's something to do with the floppy drive and I edit lilo.conf to load LILO in the boot sector. I run LILO and get the same message. I figure that the problem is that I'm missing something about using the rescue system-- I haven't had to use it since I switched from Redhat 2 years ago, so I'm out of practice. Any ideas, suggestions, etc? Thanks in advance, Dennis "Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language." --Noel Godin -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Dennis Soper wrote:
0 I got an Abit BP-6 motherboard and a 28 GB Seagate UDMA drive for my new workstation. I installed Gentus 2.0 on the box but it was such a piece of sh*t, that I wiped it and installed SuSE 6.3 after I snagged all the hard drive geometry, etc., out of the log files.
Installation went great and I installed LILO on a floppy, figuring I was going to have to do some tweaking to get it to boot right, even though YaST appended the LBA geometry (hdc=3467,255,67) to the config file. I made sure the all the boot partition lives below sector 1024.
So I booted from the floppy and made it to "LI". I mounted the drive from the rescue system on CD-ROM and edited lilo.conf like the SuSE support database said I should. I ran LILO and it said it couldn't find lilo.conf. So I tried copying lilo.conf to the RAMdisk and re-ran it. The floppy drive lights and then starts to spin and I get the message, "Sorry, don't understand 0x0102", and everything stops. So I think it's something to do with the floppy drive and I edit lilo.conf to load LILO in the boot sector. I run LILO and get the same message.
I figure that the problem is that I'm missing something about using the rescue system-- I haven't had to use it since I switched from Redhat 2 years ago, so I'm out of practice.
I'm not too familiar with the rescue system either, but... Does the rescue system mount the filesystem under /mnt or something like that? If that was the case, lilo.conf would have to be adjusted appropriately, since the kernel wouldn't be in the usual place. If LILO only gets its prompt as far as 'LI', then that usually means either faulty disk geometry, or the /boot/boot.b file has been moved. I hope that give you a start, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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