RedHat's installation is giving very little information here... I'd drop
to a shell after the install and run lilo manually (you may need to boot
the system from a kernel on a floppy to do this)
It'll probably tell you that disk druid did somthing daft like put the
root partition outside the 0-1023 track bios accessable area (It may be
that lilo can't determin the BIOS device for the scsi controller.... there
is an option to set this manually but you might want to read the lilo
manual page as I can't remember exactly...)
James
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Lei Liu wrote:
> Hi, All.
> I am trying to install RedHat 5.2 on a Dell PowerEdge 2200 Server
> that has 3 9GB harddisks connected to an AMI MegaRAID controller (RAID 5)
> and a CD-ROM connected to the Adeptec 7880 controller on the motherboard. I
> use the boot disk downloaded from
> ftp://ftp.megatrends.com/megaraid/drivers/linux. The installation went on
> smoothly. The program saw both SCSI controllers. Disk Druid indicated that I
> had a SCSI drive of 17GB. I made a 200 MB partition for the root (sda1,
> Linux native) and a 500 MB partition for /usr (sda5, linux native). All the
> files were copied properly and I configured the network and so on. However,
> before installation finished, I got this error message 'An error occurred
> during step "Install boot loader"'. I tried both 'Master Boot Record' and
> 'First sector of boot partition' options. Same error message occurred. Can
> anyone tell me what went wrong? Do I have to pass some special options to
> the kernel at boot time?
> Thank you very much.
> Lei Liu
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