Hi Chris, Yep yast2 I can't remember if I used yast1 but I know yast2 was used a lot I think I installed SuSE 7.2 (6 or 7 times). I used YAST1 for a while network stuff and editing the admin side etc. I also tried to correct it by midifying the lilo.conf too The only way in the end was to create a small dos partition. Regards Matt -----Original Message----- From: Chris Reeves [SMTP:chris.reeves@iname.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 10:32 AM To: SuSE List Subject: Re: [SLE] Booting from the lilo prompt On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 10:19:29AM +0100, Matt wrote:
I have had a simular problem, I solved it by creating a small DOS partition then installed again. for me SuSE seemed to seek out a DOS partition or a valid MBR, I tried fdisk /MBR and then installed with no DOS partition this failed to work, I tried to install with lilo pointing to the MBR and also again with it point to a partition all with only linux partitions.
Hmmm... was this all being done through YaST2? Admittedly I've never usesd YaST2 to install any version of SuSE, and I don't have SuSE 7.2, but this shouldn't be a problem. Did you try to get this working by editing /etc/lilo.conf and rerunning LILO?
The only way I could get it to work was to create a DOS partition then reinstall so now mine works 100% with no floppy at all.
This is very strange and shouldn't be necessary. But if it works... :-\ Bye, Chris --