On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Dan Browning (Network Admin) wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Dan Browning (Network Admin) wrote:
> >
> > > System boots up and says "LI" instead of "LILO:" and locks up.
> > >
>
> I have made a rescue disk from the rescue.img that comes with the
rhl5.2
> distro, but I can't boot it, I have to boot the "boot" image disk and
> then
> insert
> Yes, it's a scsi. I don't ever get a LILO: prompt with the boot disks
> that
> I have. I have the mandrake 5.3, and redhat 5.2 boot/rescue disks.
The
> only image I can load from those boot disks is "vmlinuz" ("initrd.img"
> boot
> options returns the error
> "Loading
> Invalid or corrupt kernel image.")
This is true. initrd.img is not a kernel. It is a compressed root
filesystem that the RedHat set up mounts on a ramdisk for the first
stage of their two-stage boot process, and it's responsible for loading
the modules you need to use devices that aren't compiled into vmlinuz.
Including scsi, I think.
>
> If I load the vmlinuz image with the parameter boot=/dev/sda1, then I
> get
this is a typo for root, right? ^
> the following (after the boot process):
>
> FS: Cannot open root device 08:22
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:22
This looks wrong to me. /dev/sda1 should be 08:01, shouldn't it? You
could maybe try root=0x0801
>
> But if I do a normal boot for installation, it can detect the SCSI just
> fine, even install right over my old install.
>
If you can break out of the install and get into command mode, it has
probably mounted /dev/sda1 somewhere (mount should tell you, maybe
/mnt) if not you can mount it yourself, then copy /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
and change it to account for all path names have (for now) /mnt (or
wherever /dev/sda1 is) prepended, and run /mnt/sbin/lilo..
> I'm going to just try installing a new distro on a new hdd and access
my
> other hdd's that way.
This should also work, and may turn out to be easier.:-). You won't
need a full blown system with X and all apps.
> Tell me: if I have a 2.1 GB SCSI and a 3.2mb IDE and
> IDE Cdrom, how would you set up your system? How does a person get a
> SCSI
> hdd to boot before IDE? Is that important? Thanks.
I am sorry, I don't have any experience with SCSI. I think the first
boot is completely at the mercy of the bios, which after all does the
deed. You could, of course, configure and install lilo on each of
them, but that seems like overkill to me.:-)
Lawson
> >
>
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