Page 123 of the manual explains LILO error messages and what to do about them. According to it either you have a disk geometry problem or /boot/boot.b was moved without updating running lilo again. JLK Adrian Burd wrote:
OK, I've found it impossible to upgrade from 6.2 to 6.3. This is the first time I've ever had problems upgrading a Suse distribution (and I started with Suse at 5.2 and have upgraded at every release since then).
System: PII - 300Mhz Asus Motherboard WD 9.2Gb IDE hard drive (for Linux) Seagate 2Gb SCSI (for WinDoze) 128Mb Ram
Problem: Well, there I was actually reading the documentation since I'd heard about Yast 2. I decided to forget about it and use Yast 1.03 for upgrade so booted from CD-2 (after which the upgrade says to use CD-1). Everything went fine - nice installation, set up X-windows, everything's fine.
THEN, I rebooted. Lilo hung at LI. Well, that the FIRST time I've ever had that happen on me. Had a look at lilo.conf...everything's fine (same lilo.conf as with 6.2 which worked like a dream). Eventually, after a couple of days tinkering around and finding nothing out-of-place I decided to do a fresh install - I make regular back-ups.
So I do a fresh install and take the opportunity to repartition the IDE drive. Again, Lilo hangs.
Then in desperation I think, let's try Yast2. Ugh! Well, having said that, it did work and I did get to a set up that I can reboot. But, the partitioning is less than ideal for the work I do as well as a host of other minor annoyances. BUT, at least I know there is nothing inherently wrong with the system.
So, I go back to the Expert Install. Same problems. I've even tried different kernels - I usually use the EIDE kernel, the standard kernel gives a kernel panic on boot.
So, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get a good Expert Install or suggestions as to what is going wrong and how to fix it? I'm rapidly running out of options (apart from going to back to RedHat (yes, I admit it, I ran RedHat until I switched to Suse))?
Adrian
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