[6095] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Lilo Problems After 4.0 Upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom McCurdy)
Mon Nov 25 20:24:53 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:02:04 -0800
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From: Tom McCurdy <tom@west.net>
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At 10:43 AM 11/25/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
> I was running RedHat 3.03 on an Intel 75 Pentium, 24 MB memory, two
>32 MB Swap partitions, and a 1.08 GB root partion on /dev/sdb1. I was
>using MetroX and an Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI card.
>
> This weekend, while trying to upgrade to RedHat 4.0, I discovered
>that only one of the 2940 drivers would work with my system - the
>alt-aic7xxx boot image, which is unsupported. However, since all my
>RedHat Machines at work - I have 3 - use Adaptec 1542 SCSI controllers,
>I was fortunate enough to be able to swap to an Adaptec 1542 at home
>also. I did this for increased compatibility with the RedHat 4.0
>installation system, and also because I want to recompile my kernel for
>sound card support once I get everything working okay.
>
> The upgrade to 4.0 proceeded fine, but I got an error message that
>the lilo install failed. When the upgrade completed, lilo was corrupted
>on the master boot record of my /dev/sda win95 disk, so I booted DOS
>6.22 on floppy and did an A: fdisk /mbr to restore the DOS mbr. Using a
>Linux boot diskette, I can access the RedHat Linux 4.0 system just fine,
>and see that it upgraded the control panel, fvwm, etc alright.
>
> But when I try to do a # /sbin/lilo -v on my Linux system, I get
>something to the effect of:
>
>0x0880 error on /dev/sda
>
>or something like that. After booting 4.0 from diskette and accessing
>my hard drive and root partion, how can I properly install 4.0 Lilo from
>the CD and resolve my Lilo /mbr problems? I can't seem to find lilo
>listed on the "AVAILABLE" group from the package management control
>panel. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>Regards, Niel Balsino
>
>
>--
You need the upgrade lilo.rpm
I had the same problem and don't see it on the CD in the updates directory.
You'll have to get it from the Red Hat site. It's path is at the bottom
of this message.
Good luck,
Tom
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