On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about, lilo install problem:
> The problem:
>
> During Redhat 6.0 installation, the lilo installer reported an unspecified error,
>and quit.
> The OS installation finished only after I told it to Skip installing lilo.
> The Redhat /boot partition is listed in the Boot Manager menu.
> OS/2 Boot Manager gives an error "partition not formatted..." when trying to boot
>Redhat.
> The system will boot to Redhat from the Redhat boot floppy.
>
> Redhat support passed the buck, naturally, since I mentioned OS/2:
>
> "The resolution of your problem is:
> Unfortunately, working with the OS/2 boot manager is not supported."
>
> So much for their installation support.
The lines above here are also too long the longest being 92 chars.
The lines below here are waaaaay toooo long, the longest 498, your getting
near to brakeing the record for the longest line ever. Please set your
editors line wrap to less that 80 chars.
Now the problem you are having with LILO.
First you dont say if you have any IDE drives, ?? its very important, if
you do then sda is not your first disk, /dev/hda is and thats where lilo
will try to install itself.
I recently brougt a scsi disk and tryed to instal lilo on it by defining
/dev/sda as the place to install lilo, i had the same sort of problem as
you have, but lilo when invoked will say something like;
/dev/sda is not the fist disk Aborting.
Could this be the exceptional error which is occuring.???
When you issue the command /sbin/lilo it will produce output to the screen,
whats the message it gives.?
I belive that is enough as Lawson has explained the rest.
> The problem has nothing whatsoever to do with Boot Manager, it occurred during the
>Redhat installation. I am trying to install lilo on sda8, aka /boot. This partition
>resides at cyl 665-666, and reports itself as 15.7MB. I'm trying to set it up this
>way because the main Linux partition, sda9, extends beyond cyl 1023.
>
> I have set up several multi-boot systems, and I have never before had a problem with
>the Redhat installation. I checked settings with linuxconf, and ran /sbin/lilo, no
>change. I looked at /etc/lilo/config, it seems to be in order. I'm using OS/2 Boot
>Manager up front because that is the recommended procedure for a system using both
>Linux and OS/2, and I have experience with it. The partitions were created under
>OS/2, and formatted with Linux fdisk, as specified in the RH Installation Guide.
>
> What could have caused this?
> Could someone please point me to or send me a file list for what *should* be on
>/boot?
> Is lilo really necessary, or could I boot Redhat directly from Boot Manager?
> TIA
>
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> Carl Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> -Joe Redington 'Father of the Iditarod'
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