I've just decided to try Red Hat 6.2, and was dissapointed to find that it
still doesn't install my SiS 6326 video correctly, so Mandrake 7 is still,
AFAIK, the only Linux distro that can do it first try! Congratulations Mandrake!
Also, Red Hat did not recognise my CDrw as a burner, and just installed it as a
CDrom. Mandrake spotted the burner and installed the ide-scsi stuff to set it
up (even though there was a simple bug in the /dev assignments) Again, Mandrake
rules!
Anyway, I now have a system that boots both Mdk & Red Hat, but have some funny
problems, which I have think I have seen answered before on the list, but can't
find in the archives.
Firstly, my setup:
hda1 fat32 Windows 95, 5Gb
hda2 Linux Red Hat / 1.2Gb
hdb1 fat32 used by Windows 95 850Mb
hdb5 Linux Mandrake 3Gb
hdb6 Linux swap 256Mb
hdc ide CDrom
hdd ide CDrw
The problems:
1) Before the addition of the Red Hat partition, Mandrake recognised the CDrw
properly (although I have had problems burning, but thats another story...)
Now, however, I get a "the kernel does not recognise /dev/cdrom2 as a block
device" error when I boot Mandrake. This happens whether I boot from lilo on
hda or from the boot disk I made at installation.
2) Lilo when installed by the Red Hat installation using the following
lilo.conf file:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
linear
default=windows
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=redhat
read-only
root=/dev/hda2
append="mem=96M"
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hdb5
append="hdd=ide-scsi mem=96M"
read-only
boots redhat & windows OK, but if I select linux (mandrake), I get an error that
modules.dep can't be found. Mandrake still starts, but I have lots of red FAILs
at boot time, eg eth0
3) If I install lilo from Mandrake, using
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=windows
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
timeout=50
#message=/boot/message
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hdb5
append="hdd=ide-scsi mem=96M"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=redhat
read-only
root=/dev/hda2
append="mem=96M"
I get "open /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0: No such file or directory". Windows &
Mandrake boot OK (except for Problem 1) but no Red Hat.
So I guess I have screwed something! How do I fix it???
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