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Re: problem trying to install LILO in upgrade to Colgate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Sat Oct 26 10:34:03 1996
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 10:30:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Sat, 26 Oct 1996 DKS@hep.anl.gov wrote:
> I have tried to Upgrade to Colgate (from Rembrandt) using the official CD.
> Each time the upgrade fails when I try to install LILO on sda2 (my root
> partition). If I request the menue option, I get a blank screen, with no way
> of exiting. I tried first using the boot disk supplied with the CD's, and then
> with a boot disk created using the image (boot.img) dated 15th October in the
> updates directory under RedHat-4.0 on the RedHat ftp site. Both failed. I
> hacked into the Linux directories and restored the lilo.conf that had been
> deleted, but when I tried to reboot LILO complained that it had a 2.0.18
> kernel and 2.0.10 modules and the reboot died with a kernel panic. Currently I
> am leaving the system in limbo until I get some advice.
Some error messages would have been nice :-(
I would guee you have your root partition stretched past the 1024 cylinder
boundary. What kind of SCSI do you have?
Erik
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