Aloha,
I've been using RedHat 5.2/6.0/6.1 and am now into Debian 2.1 for the
past 2 months... Now I tried installing RH 6.1 in a friend's machine that
has /dev/hda -> CDROM , Primary master and /dev/hdb -> 4.3 GB SeaGate HDD
I made the linux native/swap partitions , 1.2 GB / 130 MB respectively.
The system config is : Pentium 200 MMX , 32 MB SD RAM , 4.3 GB HDD , 40
X Creative CD-ROM Drive , One Serial Mouse (Logitech) and a keyboard...
The entire setup is about 2 years or so old...
I boot off the CD [ RH 6.1 ] and perform the installation ... It goes on
fine until it installs some 700 odd MB that I choose to install of a
custom install and finally , it reboots with 'congratulations , rebooting
now ... " [not the exact messages, but very similar ] and it unmounts the
filesystems fine and then on rebooting , this is what happens...
The BIOS detects the HDD/CD-ROM etc and does some routine boot up work and
just before the point I should get the LILO boot: prompt, screen fills up
with 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 and so on , and scrolls down all the
way forever [ or atleast , for 5 whole minutes after which my patience
didn't hold out ] ...
I had to reboot with the boot floppies and then tried using not only the
RedHat 6.1 CD , but also the Debian 2.1 (Slink) cds to re-write the MBR
with LILO since I assumed the MBR was corrupted or something... but the
message I got was "Write to MBR Failed!" and I don't know why...
My questions are:
1] why do i get a bunch of 0s and 1s?
2] what can/should i do to fix the problem?
3] would the problem get fixed if I formatted the machines HDD completely
? - not feasible since the win95 partition has important stuff.
4] would installing debian alone work ?
Thanks in advance and have a nice day.
- Ravi
PS : Don't bother cc-ing the reply to me since I am subscribed to the list
itself . :-)
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