Linux-Setup Digest #681, Volume #20 Wed, 21 Feb 01 18:13:14 EST
Contents:
LILO, boot problems (Vlar Schreidlocke)
How do I make a boot floppy with command line arguments? (Vlar Schreidlocke)
network install problem, please help me!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
can't get redhat linux to recognize network ("eric gregory")
Trouble connecting SCSI AIT drive (Matt Clay)
linux netowrk drives ("Mathias Rodenstein")
Re: How do I make a boot floppy with command line arguments? (Steven Conway)
no ELF binary (MD)
Re: LILO, boot problems ("Duane Healing")
LILO problem ("Alim")
Re: RH 7.0 and 56k modem. No prompt. ("Duane Healing")
poor resolution on dell precision 420..? (Greg Trafton)
Azza Motherboard - Feedback? (Seve)
Re: linux netowrk drives (Steven Conway)
Re: Linux/Win sharing disk on dual boot (Stevenson)
Re: apt-get through proxy: "gzip: stdin: not in gzip format" (J Sloan)
Re: Samba 2.0.7/RH7.0 and W2K (Hartmut Berghoff)
install probelms ("Shravan Mahidhara")
Re: LILO, boot problems ("Peter T. Breuer")
help with SOffice please ("Brian")
Re: can't get redhat linux to recognize network (Michael Heiming)
Hard Disk won't boot, floppy will (Vlar Schreidlocke)
Re: How do I make a boot floppy with command line arguments? (Vlar Schreidlocke)
Redhat Boot Issue 6.2 (bb)
Re: LILO, boot problems (David)
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From: Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO, boot problems
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:59:29 GMT
I recently recompiled a kernel and after running LILO my computer can
no longer find the hard disk. I am running Mandrake 7.2. When I do an
install/upgrade it can find my hard drive again. What do I need to do
to avoid problems like this in the future? I have a 20GB Western
Digital drive on an older Dell P90 with an updated BIOS that allow
the drive to be seen. It is set up as LBA I believe.
I was able to boot from the boot floppy and then it found my hard disk
and continued botting normally. I edited lilo.conf several times and
everything looks correct as far as I can tell. I can't figure out why
I can boot from the floppy and then have the hard disk seen, but not
boot directly from the hard disk. It actually worked a couple of times
(booted from hard disk), but then the computer wouldn't boot frm the
hard disk after that.
Please help me. I've been working on this one for days.
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From: Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I make a boot floppy with command line arguments?
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:22:35 GMT
I'm having trouble getting my system to boot off the hard disk. I'm
running Mandrake 7.2 only, no other OS. Until I can get it to boot off
the HD I would like to have a boot floppy that automatically runs the
"ether=5,0x280,eth0 ether=4,0x300,eth1" command line arguments. How do
I do this?
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Subject: network install problem, please help me!!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:40:14 GMT
I have Installed Linux Mandrake 7.1. When I use Gnome Samba Browser I can see all my
Windows N.T. 4.0 based network (I use domain name), but when i Double click in any of
the members of the network it ask me for the user, pass and group name. I know
(oviously)user and pass, but I don't use group name (I use domain name). I try as
group name the server name and the domain name, but it keeps me asking.
How can I configure Linux to use domain name, not group name?
I am new in Linux.
thanks for any help.
bye.
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From: "eric gregory" <eric"youknowwhatyoucandowithyourspam"@clarksville.com>
Subject: can't get redhat linux to recognize network
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:51:46 -0600
I am new to Linux so any help here would be greatly appreciated. I have
built a pc with a pentium 350, 6 gb hdd and 128 mb of ram, I get the
computer to start and boot just fine, however I can not get linux to
recognize the network, I have tried 3 different network cards and each time
I try a different one the system will recognize the card but will not
communicate on the network, I have tried redhat 6.1 7.0 and even the
fisher beta version. I get a link light on the card and on the hub that I
am plugged into and if I try to ping another host on the network I even get
activity lights an both hub and nic but no real response, same situation if
I try to ping my linux box from another host.
does anyone have any suggestions.
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From: Matt Clay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Trouble connecting SCSI AIT drive
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:21:47 -0600
I'm having trouble connecting an externally mounted Seagate
Sidewinder-50 AIT drive to a RH 7.0 box. The machine is using an Adaptec
29160N SCSI controller card and has all the latest RH updates.
I've heard that there may be some incompatibilities between the 29160
card and the Sidewinder-50 and was wondering if anyone had found
anything similar?
The problem is that when the external AIT drive is connected to the Dell
workstation, and I try to boot into Linux, I get the following series of
errors during the Linux boot process right after Linux detects the SCSI
host
card and hard drive:
=========
detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id0, lun0
SCSI : aborting command due to timeout : pid2, scsi0, channel 0, id1,
lun0
Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
SCSI host 0 abort (pid2) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0, channel 0
(these two lines repeat 3 more times)
Probably an unrecoverable SCSI bus or device hang
(scsi:0:0:1:0) Parity error during Message-In phase
==========
At this point the computer simply hangs.
The Adaptec BIOS is configured for parity-checking, host SCSI ID 7, hard
drive
ID 0, and AIT ID 1. I have also tried setting the AIT drive to ID 2
with no
better results. I have had some results, however, disabling parity
checking
at the BIOS level. If I do this, Linux boots but I can't write to the
tape
drive. I can erase it by "mt -f /dev/nst0 erase" but if I try to write
to it
by "tar -cvf /dev/nst0 /root" then the system hangs and the error
terminal
reports the following:
==========
aborting command due to timeout pid 4595, scsi0, channel0, id0, lun0
Write (10) 00 02 14 39 08 00 00 04 00
==========
This then repeats approximately 5 times then stops. If I turn off the
AIT
drive, it is external so I can turn it on and off=20 separately from the
main
system, then the computer unfreezes and returns to normal operation.
I have checked and the jumper that controls parity checking is not set
to
disable, aka parity checking should be enabled on the drive.
One other piece of information: The Adaptec BIOS displays different
speeds for
the AIT drive depending on whether parity checking is turned on or off.
During
boot-up, it displays what devices it has found and their speed. It shows
the
Hard Drive with speed 160 (the maximum). Withparity checking on, it
displays a
speed of 10.0 for the AIT drive, but a speed of ASYN (asynchronous) when
parity checking is disabled.
Thank you for your help,
Matt
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From: "Mathias Rodenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux netowrk drives
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:45:32 +0100
hi there...once more i have a newbie question
i recently set up a little lan at home consisting of three computers all
running debian 2.2r2 connected over a hub...what would be the easiest way
to set it up so i can access all hd's from every computer
tia, M
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From: Steven Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I make a boot floppy with command line arguments?
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:54:13 -0500
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:22:35 GMT, Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I'm having trouble getting my system to boot off the hard disk. I'm
>running Mandrake 7.2 only, no other OS. Until I can get it to boot off
>the HD I would like to have a boot floppy that automatically runs the
>"ether=5,0x280,eth0 ether=4,0x300,eth1" command line arguments. How do
>I do this?
>
man mkbootdisk
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From: MD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: no ELF binary
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:01:14 GMT
Hi !
I've just rebuild my kernel and when booting it displays error messages
modprobe not an ELF binary
just after the message for looking modules dependencies.
and then a lot of 'no depedencies found' messages on several modules
but the system seems to run correctly and if I run /sbin/modprobe I
don't get the not en ELF binary message
So what happens ?
Michel
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From: "Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO, boot problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:14:40 -0800
More precise data is needed to debug the problem. What exactly does
your lilo.conf look like? (post it). What exactly are the messages you
get when you try to boot from the hard drive? Without exact information,
diagnosis is impossible.
--
-Duane
-DNAware SoftLabs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Vlar
Schreidlocke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently recompiled a kernel and after running LILO my computer can no
> longer find the hard disk. I am running Mandrake 7.2. When I do an
> install/upgrade it can find my hard drive again. What do I need to do to
> avoid problems like this in the future? I have a 20GB Western Digital
> drive on an older Dell P90 with an updated BIOS that allow the drive to
> be seen. It is set up as LBA I believe.
>
> I was able to boot from the boot floppy and then it found my hard disk
> and continued botting normally. I edited lilo.conf several times and
> everything looks correct as far as I can tell. I can't figure out why I
> can boot from the floppy and then have the hard disk seen, but not boot
> directly from the hard disk. It actually worked a couple of times
> (booted from hard disk), but then the computer wouldn't boot frm the
> hard disk after that.
>
> Please help me. I've been working on this one for days.
>
>
>
>
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From: "Alim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO problem
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:19:06 -0000
Hi
I have two hard disks. One (hde) contains Windows98 (hde1) in a primary
FAT32 partition and Win2K in a logical drive(hde5), with the win2K
bootloader on the MBR. The other contains Linux 2.4 with LILO on the MBR.
Now the only way I can get to boot windows is to change the boot device in
the bios, which is not much good. Does anyone know how I can get either the
win2k bootloader to load LILO, or preferably LILO to boot the win2k
bootloader?
TIA
alim
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From: "Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.0 and 56k modem. No prompt.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:23:14 -0800
What kind of modem is it? If it's a winmodem you're probably hosed.
Take a look at the FCC ID and look it up at
http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/20010212a.html to see if it will work or
not.
--
-Duane
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ton 't Lam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I'm using RH7.0 and an old 19k2 modem is recognized and is working. I
> get the AT prompt using minicom. I bought a new 56k modem, and now I
> don't even get a prompt. I used setserial to set the speed to spdvhi.
> What to check to get in touch with this modem.
>
> - Ton 't Lam
>
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From: Greg Trafton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: poor resolution on dell precision 420..?
Date: 21 Feb 2001 16:19:16 -0500
Hi, all. I have a new dell precision 420 running redhat linux 7.0.
unfortunately, the resolution while running X is pretty lousy (and
I've tried changing it with control-alt-+). I know I need to get the
info on the monitor (dell's trinitron) and the video card (etc.) but I
can't quite seem to figure out how to do that. netscape text, other
text, etc. looks bitmapped or poorly painted...
any suggestions on how to figure out the specs on my info (I've
already tried the hardware identification Howto with little success)
and/or how to get my resolution better on this box?
thanks!
greg
--
Greg Trafton
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Seve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Azza Motherboard - Feedback?
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:32:26 -0800
How are Azza Motherboards? Reliable?
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From: Steven Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux netowrk drives
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:34:11 -0500
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:45:32 +0100, "Mathias Rodenstein"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
NFS & Exports
man nfs
man exports
Steven
>hi there...once more i have a newbie question
>
>i recently set up a little lan at home consisting of three computers all
>running debian 2.2r2 connected over a hub...what would be the easiest way
>to set it up so i can access all hd's from every computer
>
>tia, M
>
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From: Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux/Win sharing disk on dual boot
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:48:52 GMT
Rod,
Your umask=0 idea worked like a champ. I don't know why I didn't see
that option. Yes I do: I think of umask as applying to the login, not
the file system, so I must have skimmed over it in a fog.
Anyway, you made me happy.
Thanks,
Chuck
Rod Smith wrote:
>
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I would like RWX access to one of my windows partitions while logged in
> > as a linux user on my dual boot intel pc.
>
> There are two possible solutions:
>
> #1:
>
> /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_d vfat uid={x} 0 0
>
> Replace {x} with the UID of the user who must have access.
>
> #2:
>
> /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0 0 0
>
> Solution #1 gives access to just one user; #2 gives full R/W access to
> everybody. There are variants on both of these. Check the mount man
> page, and particularly the section on FAT mount options, for details.
>
> --
> Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.rodsbooks.com
> Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uw.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: apt-get through proxy: "gzip: stdin: not in gzip format"
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:57:31 GMT
Joe Mason wrote:
> I'm trying to use Debian's apt-get through a WinGate proxy. It seems to be
> connecting fine when I run 'apt-get update', but once it's downloaded the
> index file it tries to spawn gzip, which bombs out with the error "stdin: not
> in gzip format". I've tried downloading the index files by hand through the
> same proxy (with lynx) and they come through as gzip files just fine.
>
> My first and only thought was that WinGate was doing some sort of CR/LF
> mangling on the files before it passed them on, but this doesn't seem to be
> the case since lynx can get them fine. Does anybody have a suggestion of
> what apt-get's http method might be doing that would make it fail here?
Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to use Linux
as the transparent proxy?
Just a thought...
jjs
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From: Hartmut Berghoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Re: Samba 2.0.7/RH7.0 and W2K
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 23:07:57 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Olivier Clavel schrieb:
> Meron Lavie wrote:
> >
> > I have Samba 2.0.7 running on RH7.0.
> >
> > I have a dual-boot (W2K/WinMe) PC on the same LAN. I gave each OS its own
> > computer name and IP. Both OS's and the Linux have both IPs and host names
> > appearing in their HOSTS file.
> >
> > Both W2K and WinMe can see and access shared directories on the Linux via
> > Samba wioth no problem (I enabled un-encrypted passwords on both).
> >
> > However, only the WinMe can succesfully logon to the domain.
> >
> > I get the following error messages: "Failed due to process number out of
> > range" or "credentials already exist".
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
> Nothing. You just need samba 2.2alpha. 2.0.7 does not support win2k
> domain logon.
> --
That's it. With 2.0.7 I configured my w2k as workgroup with workgroupname as in
smb.conf. So there is not domain logon, but I can share all networkshares defined
by samba.
Users of course must be defined both on w2k box and samba.
Hartmut
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From: "Shravan Mahidhara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: install probelms
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:19:41 -0600
Hi.
I'm trying to install Red Hat 7 with kernel 2.2-16 on an X86 machine.The
first time I booted with the CD(one that came with Red Hat Linux Bible),it
worked fine and I went ahead with the procedure for a custom
installation.Midway through the install,it froze.
Now,when I boot from the CDROM,it doesn't recongnise the CD,doesn't read
from it and doesn't go into the install program.Instead,I get a "kernel
panic" error.
I tried making a boot floppy and booting it off of that.It works till the
time the files have to be read off the CDROM.I then get a message that says
"I could not find a Red Hat CDROM in any of your CDROM drives".
So,I'm stuck with a machine that has no OS and I can't think of a way to
load Linux on it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Shravan
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO, boot problems
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 22:36:18 GMT
Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently recompiled a kernel and after running LILO my computer can
> no longer find the hard disk. I am running Mandrake 7.2. When I do an
It can find it just fine .. when you choose to compile a driver for the
controller into it.
Peter
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with SOffice please
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 23:29:26 +0100
Hi: downloaded so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin from www.sun.com and set to
installing.
chmod 777 so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin
Became root, went to Desktop, typed so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin: bad command.
Three or four times, still 'bad command'. Went back into KDE (I have
Mandrake 7.2) opened Konqeror clicked on the file, nothing happens. So just
as I was giving up sudden frantic hard disk activity starts. Lasts for TWO
hours with everything else frozen, no mouse, no console, no screen refresh,
just mad hard disk working away. Two hours later hd stops, screen never
recovers, go into console mode, reboot and now it won't start KDE. Gets to
the prompt, I enter and if I say 'startx' (which I didn't used to have to
do, straight to KDE) I get this error:
XKEYBOARD reports - error: bad length in Symbols
Output file /var/tmp/server-0.xkm removed.
Couldn't load XKE keymap
FontFrameSocked UNIX connect
Can't connect errno: 111
Failed to set default font path 'unix /i -1'
Couldn't open default font "fixed"
I'm too new to have a clue. It seems to have put lots of new directories
called Office here and there in the file system, but I can't figure out
what's wrong and how to fix it. Help please.
Brian
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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 23:35:43 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't get redhat linux to recognize network
eric gregory wrote:
> I am new to Linux so any help here would be greatly appreciated. I have
> built a pc with a pentium 350, 6 gb hdd and 128 mb of ram, I get the
> computer to start and boot just fine, however I can not get linux to
> recognize the network, I have tried 3 different network cards and each time
> I try a different one the system will recognize the card but will not
> communicate on the network, I have tried redhat 6.1 7.0 and even the
> fisher beta version. I get a link light on the card and on the hub that I
> am plugged into and if I try to ping another host on the network I even get
> activity lights an both hub and nic but no real response, same situation if
> I try to ping my linux box from another host.
>
> does anyone have any suggestions.
Hello,
sounds like a routing problem, post the output from (and the IP/netmask you
set on your other machines)
route -n
check your eth setup with
ifconfig
test with
lsmod
if your card driver is loaded in the kernel, asuming it's not static build in
your kernel.
Michael Heiming
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From: Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hard Disk won't boot, floppy will
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 22:28:48 GMT
I am still having problems getting my hard disk to boot. I am running
Mandrake 7.2. I have a 20GB IDE hard drive (hda) on a Dell P90. When I
run fdisk /dev/hda it shows the first partition hda1 starting on
cylinder 1 and ending on cylinder 63. It has an asterisk under the
boot column. I have run lilo with a good(?) lilo.conf file. It is
similar to other lilo.conf files on working machines of similar setup.
Could there be something wrong with my MBR? I can boot off a boot
floppy and then it finds everything esle on my hard disk.
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From: Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I make a boot floppy with command line arguments?
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 22:30:03 GMT
Thanks for the reply. It is unclear in the man page how to set up the
command line arguments I specified below.
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:54:13 -0500, Steven Conway
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:22:35 GMT, Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>I'm having trouble getting my system to boot off the hard disk. I'm
>>running Mandrake 7.2 only, no other OS. Until I can get it to boot off
>>the HD I would like to have a boot floppy that automatically runs the
>>"ether=5,0x280,eth0 ether=4,0x300,eth1" command line arguments. How do
>>I do this?
>>
>
>man mkbootdisk
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From: bb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat Boot Issue 6.2
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 22:50:55 GMT
While moving my linux box ...when booting up...I get the error:
LILO boot:
Loading linux............................
Uncompressing Linux...
invalid compressed format (err=2)
-- System halted-
===============================================================
I have 3 valid kernel's to boot from and none seem to be taking.
Any insight would be much appreciated
Bob
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO, boot problems
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 23:03:04 GMT
Vlar Schreidlocke wrote:
>
> I recently recompiled a kernel and after running LILO my computer can
> no longer find the hard disk. I am running Mandrake 7.2. When I do an
> install/upgrade it can find my hard drive again. What do I need to do
> to avoid problems like this in the future? I have a 20GB Western
> Digital drive on an older Dell P90 with an updated BIOS that allow
> the drive to be seen. It is set up as LBA I believe.
>
> I was able to boot from the boot floppy and then it found my hard disk
> and continued botting normally. I edited lilo.conf several times and
> everything looks correct as far as I can tell. I can't figure out why
> I can boot from the floppy and then have the hard disk seen, but not
> boot directly from the hard disk. It actually worked a couple of times
> (booted from hard disk), but then the computer wouldn't boot frm the
> hard disk after that.
>
> Please help me. I've been working on this one for days.
Boot with a boot disk and at the lilo prompt enter "linux
root=/dev/hdaX" where X is the correct root partition. Then run
"mkinitrd" and make sure that the /etc/lilo.conf has an "initrd" line in
it and re-run "lilo -v". If you don't get any errors then you can
reboot.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
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