[23506] in Athena Bugs
linux installer; athena cell
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan D Reed)
Thu Aug 7 09:52:52 2003
Message-Id: <200308071352.h77Dqox5027324@infinite-loop.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 09:52:50 -0400
From: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
So, first of all, a big "me, too" to Angie's bug about the installer
barfing on signal 11 (I think it was) when you attempt to use the
"Advanced" IP address page without guessing first.
I installed a machine last night using the CD image from the bootkit
locker, and the athena cell (default) installer. The install went
great, until it rebooted, and left me with the infamous
LI-
prompt. For the record, I installed onto hdb5 (with hdb1 as a boot
partition), and my bootloader lives on the MBR of hda (and Windows lives
on that drive too). I don't have any weird disk geometry (I think), and
I've never had to pass custom values to LILO before - it "just worked".
Additionally, I thought the installer was supposed to use Grub? Perhaps
it didn't get a long with the LILO that was in my MBR from a plain
vanilla install of RedHat 7.2.
Asking on -c consult indicates that this is a fairly common problem when
installing on hdb instead of hda. If so, can the installer perhaps
indicate that the world might break when the user selects hdb as their
drive. And/or give the option to make a bootdisk? (even a low-rent
bootdisk that is just the kernel dd'd to a floppy with rdev set
appropriately would be useful).
I didn't do much debugging, since I wanted a working machine, so I
booted with a RedHat CD, mounted / and /boot, created a lilo.conf that
just pointed to my windows install, and ran lilo. I might poke at it
some port, but I needed to boot windows at the time.
-Jon
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Jonathan Reed
jdreed@mit.edu
