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Re: Help :) LILO boot Installation errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Anderson)
Wed Nov 27 22:31:09 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:47:21 -0500
From: Paul Anderson <andersop@agapesystems.com>
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Zach Hall wrote:
>
> I've tried installing Redhat 4.0/Intel (full install) a few times now, and
> it seems that every time I get to the LILO boot manager section it says
> that an error occured while I was installing, leaving me with the only
> option of skipping the LILO installation. This error occures for every
> LILO drive installation option it gives me.
> I pressed ALT-F3 or ALT-F4 and the /bin/insmod program seemed to be
> spouting some error about not being about to find the kernel version info,
> or something along those lines. This happened when I selecteded any option
> dealing with installing LILO. Without LILO I'm not sure how I can access
> my Redhat 4.0 system..
>
> [my partition setup]
>
> Drive 1 (1 GIG)
>
> Contains just one DOS partition on which I run Windows NT 4.0, and DOS 6.0.
>
> Drive 2 (1 GIG)
>
> hdb1 : contains a 500M DOS partition which I use with Windows NT 4.0
> hdb2 : contains a 453M Linux partition which is root (/)
> hdb3 : contains a 50M Linux partition which is /home
> hdb4 : contains a 30M Linux swap partition
>
> partition
>
> Notice, feel free to give me any advice on how I SHOULD partition off my
> drive. I'm really new at using Linux for something other than a shell on
> the Internet.
> Also, I toggled hdb2 to be bootable, I figured this might be the problem,
> but it didn't help.
> Also, both drives and CDROM are EIDE. In DOS (before I installed Linux
> and killed drive E:) they would have been :
>
> C: (1 GIG main)
> D: (500 meg)
> E: (500 meg)
> F: (cdrom)
>
> Thanks, I'd be grateful for any help you could give me in this matter..
> maybe this a foreshadow of things to come.. gah.. no no.
>
> zach hall
If these drives are IDE, lilo, nor anything else I am aware of, will
allow someone to boot from the second drive. One may only boot a drive
from the primary drive on a given IDE bus.
Paul Anderson
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