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RH4.0 hangs after booting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hara@socrates.insight.att.com)
Tue Oct 29 11:23:48 1996
From: hara@socrates.insight.att.com
Original-From: hara@insight.uucp
Cc: hara@insight.UUCP (Haranath Sangappa)
Original-From: "Haranath Sangappa [lmh]" <hara@insight.att.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 10:30:09 -0500 (EST)
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Hi Folks,
I need your insight here in solving a problem I am facing after installing RH4.0
I have the following:
hda - 420M - DOS
hdb1 - 150M - DOS
hdb2 - 350M - Linux native
hdb3 - ~15M - Linux swap
hdc - 4x CDROM
My earlier setting for hdb was 200(DOS), 300(Linux), 16(Linux swap), in that order.
I used DOS FDISK first and changed hdb1 partition to 150M and formatted the D drive.
I can access and read/write to that dirve from DOS. Next, during RH4.0 installation,
when offered to partition the drives, I went into the menu and partitoined the two
Linux partitions. I set hdb3 to swap, formatted hdb2 and successfully installed the
packages I chose. When I came to the LILO menu, I chose the "boot from floppy" option.
This is because during earlier installation attempts, I chose to overwrite MBR and
during boot, I got LI 10 10 ... I got the message to re-boot, and get the LILO prompt
upon re-booting. I chose DOS - it worked fine. Tried again with linux, the kernel
uncompresses and I get a bunch boot messages, saying this ok, that ok, etc. My first
hard disk gets recognised but then it hangs. My guess is that my second hard disk is
not being recognised, which is a slave on ide0.
This is a bit detailed because I wanted to give you as much info as possible. I am not
sure exactly where the mistake lies, as I remember checking the partition table for
hdb after linux partitioning and finding 3 partitions. Do I have to do something during
LILO installation? Another question, I do not want to re-install all the packahes again.
Is there a way to go upto lilo using the installation floppy without going through all
the installation again, if I can avoid. Last question, does anybody know if my video
card - ATI AX0 PCI - mach32 - is supported either by MetroX or XFree86. They do not list
my card and I have to choose generic. I could not find any info on the card in ATI homepage.
Does it have an equivalent among other ATI cards?
Thanks for your time and advice.
Hara
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