Re: [SLE] Kernel Panic and Boot Disk Nightmare
On Tuesday 06 August 2002 10:56, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 06 August 2002 10:50, Nick Selby wrote:
# reiserfsck /dev/hda reiserfsck: not found
Tom's root boot can't handle reiserfs??? OK, not much use on a default SuSE system then.
Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System /dev/hda2 * 3 897 7189087+ b win95 FAT32 /dev/hda3 898 2432 12329887+ f win95 ext(LBA) /dev/hda5 ? 258811 249375 2071690107 f6 unknown
Whoops...
Whoops indeed. That's looks a bit corrupt to me. Unless someone else has an idea on how to fix that, I'd say it's time for a reinstall
I feared that. However my main problem is this: Lilo is hogging the boot process, and I can't seem to circumvent it. I can load to windows by selecting windows in the LILO boot screen, but I cannot boot from CDrom at all, and since the notebook can boot either with a floppy OR a cdrom, I cannot boot from the boot disks and then install from the cd. I would do an NFS install across the network, BUT everytime I get to the modules stage of the disk boot, I get "Put in module disk". I do. I get "Could not find ramdisk image: initrd. Press a key to reboot." I then tried it with the fallback disk for older systems and same error. -- ---------------------------- Nick Selby German Mobile: +49 173 384 6576 | UK Mobile: +44 781 592 5713 | US Mobile: +1 646 334 3649 *Currently in: Germany* -------------------------------------------------------
On Tuesday 06 August 2002 11:03, Nick Selby wrote:
I feared that. However my main problem is this: Lilo is hogging the boot process, and I can't seem to circumvent it. I can load to windows by selecting windows in the LILO boot screen, but I cannot boot from CDrom at all, and since the notebook can boot either with a floppy OR a cdrom, I cannot boot from the boot disks and then install from the cd.
I think it's possible to start the setup from DOS. If you boot your win98 in dos mode you should be able to run setup.exe from cd 1 and get into the install program that way. NOTE: I have never tried this, since I don't run windows, but the README.DOS on CD 1 says you can
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From: "Anders Johansson"
On Tuesday 06 August 2002 11:03, Nick Selby wrote:
I feared that. However my main problem is this: Lilo is hogging the boot process, and I can't seem to circumvent it. I can load to windows by selecting windows in the LILO boot screen, but I cannot boot from CDrom at all, and since the notebook can boot either with a floppy OR a cdrom, I cannot boot from the boot disks and then install from the cd.
I think it's possible to start the setup from DOS. If you boot your win98 in dos mode you should be able to run setup.exe from cd 1 and get into the install program that way. NOTE: I have never tried this, since I don't run windows, but the README.DOS on CD 1 says you can
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I've noticed that installation system of SuSE Linux 8.0 PRO does not boot from DVD, but from CDs it works just fine. Tic
On Tuesday 06 August 2002 11:12, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 06 August 2002 11:03, Nick Selby wrote:
I feared that. However my main problem is this: Lilo is hogging the boot process, and I can't seem to circumvent it. I can load to windows by selecting windows in the LILO boot screen, but I cannot boot from CDrom at all, and since the notebook can boot either with a floppy OR a cdrom, I cannot boot from the boot disks and then install from the cd.
I think it's possible to start the setup from DOS. If you boot your win98 in dos mode you should be able to run setup.exe from cd 1 and get into the install program that way. NOTE: I have never tried this, since I don't run windows, but the README.DOS on CD 1 says you can
Now when I go into windows, it says that HIMEM.SYS is missing and it can't boot. Okay, how do I wipe this entire flippin drive clean and start from scratch given my limitations about not being able to boot from CDROM and ot being able to start windows? Thanks everyone for the help.
On Tuesday 06 August 2002 11:16, Nick Selby wrote:
Okay, how do I wipe this entire flippin drive clean and start from scratch given my limitations about not being able to boot from CDROM and ot being able to start windows?
I can't say how puzzled I am that you can't boot from CD. How did you get SuSE installed in the first place? To wipe the disk clean, you can boot with the boot floppy and delete the partitions with fdisk. Then dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=512 will wipe lilo of your master boot record. //Anders
Okay, On Tuesday 06 August 2002 11:51, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 06 August 2002 11:16, Nick Selby wrote:
I can't say how puzzled I am that you can't boot from CD. How did you get SuSE installed in the first place?
First the disk was fine. Then I installed 8.0. Then I installed Windows. Then the problems began.
To wipe the disk clean, you can boot with the boot floppy and delete the partitions with fdisk.
Made boot disks in Suse 8 on another machine. Go to the crap machine in question. Install, boot. Everytime I get to the modules stage of the disk boot, I get "Put in module disk". I do. then I get "Could not find ramdisk image: initrd. Press a key to reboot." I then tried it with the fallback disk for older systems and same error.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=512
I ran the above commands with tomsrtbt and am trying... Thanks Anders!
I can't say how puzzled I am that you can't boot from CD. How did you get SuSE installed in the first place?
First the disk was fine. Then I installed 8.0. Then I installed Windows. Then the problems began.
Quote of the day: "Then I installed Windows. Then the problems began." :o) I've not really been following the thread, but if Windows runs can't you "fdisk /mbr" from a DOS prompt in order to clear LILO off the boot record? Sorry if someone's already mentioned this, or the thread has moved on from where I last read it... -- 11:00am up 13 days, 1:39, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.07, 0.02
On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 19:51, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 06 August 2002 11:16, Nick Selby wrote:
Okay, how do I wipe this entire flippin drive clean and start from scratch given my limitations about not being able to boot from CDROM and ot being able to start windows?
I can't say how puzzled I am that you can't boot from CD. How did you get SuSE installed in the first place?
To wipe the disk clean, you can boot with the boot floppy and delete the partitions with fdisk. Then
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=512
I think there is a mistake in the above command unless the bs defaults to 1. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
will wipe lilo of your master boot record.
//Anders
-- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
On Tuesday 06 August 2002 21:01, Graham Smith wrote:
I think there is a mistake in the above command unless the bs defaults to 1. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
Absolutely correct, I'm terribly sorry. The default block size is 512, so the command I gave wiped a little more than the boot record. I don't know where my mind was. //Anders
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