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Re: Not another "Install bootloader" error....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brodie Macleod)
Sat Nov 30 12:18:15 1996
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 13:15:07 -0400
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From: Brodie Macleod <brodie@atcon.com>
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At 05:39 AM 11/30/96 -0600, you 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
Hey there, I have had the same situation, also installing from CD...
I have tried re-intalled many many times and I have got the same error, to
get around it I simply made my partitions from the DOS partition using FIPS
(Fdisk will work too) and then when I got to the the setup I just renamed
the partitions to Linux Native, Swap, etc. And it worked out alright..
-Brodie
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