[6769] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Not another "Install bootloader" error....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Anderson)
Sat Nov 30 10:22:22 1996
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 10:39:13 -0500
From: Paul Anderson <andersop@agapesystems.com>
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Ralph the Wonder Llama wrote:
>
> I finally tried installing RH4.0 tonight on my 486. Everything went fine
> until the "install bootloader" stage... (sound familiar?) I'm doing a
> straight cdrom install, no ftp, no scsi, no pcmcia...
>
> I noticed in the archives that someone had used a bootdisk, mounted the
> linux partition, set up lilo.conf themselves, and ran lilo to get the thing
> to work. This sounds like a decent solution, but could anyone give me a
> few detailed steps on how to go about this? What's a good bootdisk to use
> (Slackware?), how to properly mount the drive, etc.?
>
> For the record, 3.0.3 installed just fine for me... (But I'm rather
> distraught after spending a fruitless 10 hours of trying to get RH4.0 to
> work :-(
>
> Thanks for any help you can give to a sorta-newbie....
>
> - Michael
I have experienced this problem installing 4.0 over 3.0.3. If this is
your problem, you need to boot the machine rebuild the kernel and run
lilo and you will be fine. Otherwise, you might try to just boot off
the boot disk and cd and use your alt keys to change to a shell, then
mount your drive and try to run lilo. Both of these methods have worked
for me, hope they are of some use to you.
Paul Anderson
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