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Re: lilo installation problems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Mon Oct 21 20:44:23 1996

Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 20:32:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <"24111 Mon Oct 21 16:52:32 1996"@nt.com>
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> I am having big problems installing redhat linux 4.0 .
> 
> I boot from the floppy, go through the entire installation process
> without a hitch, and then it will not properly install lilo. It then
> gets confused in a loop, and things go down hill from there.

Look at what tty5 (VC 5 [press Alt-F5 when the install fails]) and tell
us what the last few messages are.

Erik

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