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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Holt)
Mon Nov 25 21:54:06 1996
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Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 19:39:57 +0500
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From: David Holt <webmaster@virtual-space.com>
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At 03:02 PM 11/25/96 -0800, you wrote:
>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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