I have a boot loader that points to hda5 where lilo takes it from there, it
is rather unusual because it shouldn't boot at all with nothing in the /boot
directory except kernel.h. I find this to be a little strange because the
exact same install (with the exception of adding the pcmcia kernel) worked
just fine on my laptop with the exact same partition scheme. I guess
Mandrake just wanted me to do a recommended install rather than expert even
though that is how I have alwasy installed Linux regardless of the
distribution without problems in the past. Oh well, it is working now so
all I have to do is get my scanner up and runing and I will be happy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric MC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker]
> How do you boot the machine exactly ?
> With a floppy, or the hd ?
> There must be at least a vmlinuz.... and System.map in your /boot dir.
> Did you install a precompiled kernel and looked at /boot after the
> install ?
>
> On Sunday 22 April 2001 19:56, you wrote:
> | Can't do anything with lilo. I looked in my /boot
> | directory and it is absolutely empty. I don't know
>
> How did you seen it if you can't boot ?
>
> | how the thing even boots. I have tried to install
> | Mandrake on this machine several times and get this
> | same problem over and over. Oddly enough though Red
> | Hat 7.1 will install flawlessly and boots quickly
> | without problems.
> |
> | --- Eric MC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | > Look at /lib/moules/2...........mdk
> | > if there is a modules.dep
> | > If not try first to reinstall a precompiled kernel
> | > and look again.
> | > Check also your /etc/lilo.conf if it is updated with
> | > this new installed
> | > kernel. If not add them and do a lilo -v.
> | > I suppose it's not your first kernel you install ?
> | > Eric MC
> | >
> | > On Saturday 21 April 2001 23:13, you wrote:
> | > | I have found that since Mandrak 7.1 after a clean
> | > | install on my main workstation, that during boot
> | >
> | > up
> | >
> | > | the system hangs at finding module dependencies.
> | >
> | > I
> | >
> | > | was quite hoping to remove windows from my machine
> | > | with the release of Mandrake 8.0 but have found
> | >
> | > the
> | >
> | > | same problem exists with this version as well. I
> | >
> | > have
> | >
> | > | no problems of this nature with other
> | >
> | > distributions.
> | >
> | > | Do I need to recompile my kernel?
> | > |
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