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Re: RH 4.0 LILO install (RH support replies take a week)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (KKlein009@aol.com)
Fri Nov 8 15:46:35 1996
From: KKlein009@aol.com
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 15:29:45 -0500
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Recently Brian Huntlry shared this with us:
I am doing a fresh install of RH 4.0 and can not install the boot loader.
I have tried all the options (MBR, first sector of root, and floppy) and
get fatal errors on all of them. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks for your help!
-Brian Huntley
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Brian Huntley, huntlebt@craft.clarkson.edu
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And earlier this week Ken Klein e-mailed to support@redhat.com:
I just starting trying to install 4.0 from the CD last Friday. I have
installed
3.0.3 on this machine from the CD, but I started a fresh install with 4.0.
I booted from the boot floppy and all goes fine, thru selecting the packeages
I want and configuring stuff, right down to entering the root password, which
seems to work. And then selecting the hda5 partition to put the boot record
on. I have 3 primary partions for Boot Manager, os/2, and dos/win. After
that I have a logical partition for linux swap, linux, and some left over
for maybe dos junk. I try to select hda5 for the partition to write the boot
record to, but it comes back and tells me there was some error and I can go
the menu or retry the operation or give up. I tried several times to write
to hda5 or to a floppy, I dont (didn't) want to write over boot manager or
the MBR. That is waht apparently happens, because when I boot again, I go
straight to LILO and linux, and then the *installation* dialog starts all
over again. Then I have to reinstall bootmanager to get to os/2 or dos. I
have tried this a couple times with the same result. Is there no way to use
bootmanager and other os's ??????? Do I need to repartition some other
way???? Will I be forced to use LILO???? Does the linux partition have to
be a primary partition. I have AMI Bios from this year or last, so I don't
think the 1.2 Gig drive is causing a >512 cylinders problem. Thanks for
your help.
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