On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> wake up since then.
> > So I took the CD to install it. Linux was working fine.
>
> NT setup told me that it can not install NT when I chose repair NT installation. It
>couldn't find one.
> Reboot. Delete NT partition. recreate it. NT Setup is still confused.
> Forget it. I am better off linux. Remove CD, reboot. Press enter at lilo
>prompt and vow... an endless string of 00's.
i got this in my firs attempt at kernel compilation...i had not upgraded
the sytem map. Could it be that the system map was in one of those deleted
portions?
> But, even after custom install of RHL 6.2/PCQ March2K, it refused to boot. Same
>behaviour continued.
infact i have suffered enough because of 6.2 cd. I guess its anaconda is a
bit buggy. One time it crashed while partitioning, another time while
doing post install checks. I had to boot from the old 6.0 cd to delete
some of the partitions and reconfigure them
>
> Anyway result was happy ending. Wiped out NT and linux partition. Did a fdisk/mbr
>form a 95 boot disk.(Thanks to 486). Converted both to ext2
> and did a full install. No worry for space.. :-) Though I lost custom compiled
>software, it was lyx only. I forgot to back it up.
thats pretty brave way of putting things but things like this really gets
one down ...sure did to me when my disk crashed.
>
> Can anybody explain what happened to lilo in first place and why RHL custom
install did not overwrite lilo. I chose MBR and linux as default.
>
un helpfully
sreangsu
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