[99813] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Several Redhat Install Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank N. Stein)
Tue Nov 17 06:44:54 1998
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 05:47:18 -0600 (CST)
From: "Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart@microlink.net>
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On 17-Nov-98 Benjamin I Gennaria complained about Several Redhat
Install Problems:
> Hello all,
>
> I am having several install problems on Redhat 5.0, it is a straight
> install, not an upgrade. I will list them in the order that they
> occur.
>
> First off I cannot get the Linux installer to recognize my SCSI card.
> I
> am not certain what brand it is because a friend gave it to me. It is
> not
> PnP and its current settings are IO 0140-0125F and IRQ 11. It is
> recognized and works very well on Win98 as an Adaptec
> AHA-150X/1510/152X/AIC-6X60. I have tried every driver included the
> install and all of them fail, are there some options that I should
> input
> that would force it to scan at the correct IO and IRQ? Currently all
> I
> run from it is an external Zip Drive which my brother and I share to
> swap
> files back and forth. Any advice is appreciated.
Choose aha152x driver, don't probe it and then give the options:
aha152x=0x140,11,7,1
Oughta work. Did for my 1505 and 1510 boards.
> Third, and worst of all the install of LILO at the end always fails
> no
> matter how many times I redo the RedHat Install. I have a 2.5gig hard
> drive partitioned with 1791mb at the end of the drive used for Win98
> FAT32 as HDA1, a Linux ext2 602mb partition HDA5 as /, and a Linux
> Swap
> partition at 47mb. I also have a slave drive partitioned as Win98
> FAT32
> that is 405mb as HDB1. It always gets to the end of the install and
> says
> the bootloader install failed. I made sure the the boot record
> protect in
> the BIOS is disabled so that isn't it. As far as I know nothing is
> could
> be write protecting it. I have tried doing a FDISK /MBR in DOS to
> restore
> the boot record and then reinstalling Linux with the same results.
> Something that may have an affect on this is the DEV rpm and MAKEDEV
> rpm
> both fail during the install. I know the /dev is the reference point
> for
> my devices so this may be a cause. Any help here would be GREATLY
> appreciated. Thanks to all in advance.
You'll need to go into the install ('rescue' using the boot disk) and
either make a bootdisk that matches your install (not easy but, less
confusing) or mount what you can (especially / and /etc need to be
available) and run lilo (not hard but, confusing for newbies - and me
as well). This one will require you to maybe create some mountpoints to
get what you need mounted, then hunt around looking for stuff. Might be
a better way but, that's the way I've always had to do it.
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