Thanks.... I've taken it to a local shop that understands Linux. I'm having
some other "wierdness" with my video. Mandrake installed the Frame Buffer
kernel for my S3 Virge / GX, however, Red Hat installed a standard kernel
(AFAICT, that is) and it caused the same wierdness. Matter of fact, it
didn't like my video card at all, despite the fact that Xfree86.org lists it
as completely supported by XF86_SVGA. *shrug*
There's only one O/S on there and that's Mandrake. The boot device is
/dev/hda1 (I tried putting it into the MBR of /dev/hda and it didn't work
there either, that's why I decided to try and put it on the first data
drive, which also failed!)
When I try to boot w/o the floppy, a bios boot menu comes up and asks if I
want to boot from the floppy, the hard drive, the ATAPI CD Rom (which I
don't have on this system) or network. I chose "hard drive" (some versions
of my motherboard have "optional" SCSI built-in. Mine isn't one of
those...and I have SCSI turned off in the BIOS) for the IDE. What comes up
next is a BIOS error saying "operating system not found" at which time I can
only reboot.
The LATEST reinstall has /boot and / on the IDE, and pretty much everything
else on the SCSI (Hey, the IDE is only 850 megs! <G>) There is also swap
space on both drives. I believe /dev/hda2 is swap and /dev/sda2 is also swap
(I *think*) There should only be two partitions on /dev/sda -- the data
partition and the swap partition.
Unfortunately, since the system is in the shop, I can't give the EXACT setup
of /etc/lilo.conf, but you can be sure that the boot device is /dev/hda1.
:-)
Feel free to ask anything else...
(I really have a knack for picking troublesome hardware! <G>)
John
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Philp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Boot problems w / dual-processor system
> John Aldrich wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> > > John,
> > >
> > > Is the 850MB (boot) a SCSI drive? If so, you may want to check
> > > that lilo is configured properly. I had a similar problem when
> > > I put together a SCSI system. Here is my /etc/lilo.conf file
> > > if it is at all helpful (of course **change it to suit your system
> > > configuration** and run /sbin/lilo to activate changes):
> > >
> > Nope. 850 MB Boot disk is IDE. The 10.5 GB (which is only
> > seen as 8.5 GB) is SCSI.
> >
> > I appreciate the help. Further investigation (with the boot
> > floppy) seems to indicate that it's trying to boot off
> > /dev/sda1, despite the fact that when it asked where to put
> > LILO, I told it /dev/hda Master Boot Record.
> >
> > When booting with the boot floppy(created at install,) it
> > comes up with LILO and then a message saying hit "enter" to
> > boot normally from /dev/sda1 or type "rescue" to use a
> > rescue disk.
>
> Could you post a detailed message about the partitioning on the drives,
> along with the contents of /etc/lilo.conf? It would make suggesting a
> course of action much easier.
>
> --
> Steve Philp
> Network Administrator
> Advance Packaging Corporation
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
