<html> Dear Group,<br> I tried installing the RH 7.2 on my new AMD Athelon Machine. After installation the system does not boot in to linux. (wonder how the installation was successful!) It apparently seem to be a trouble with the boot loader. I will just quickly explain what I did and saw so that you can respond better. <br> Prior to installation I had windows me on the system. All files of windows were on c: having some 18G. I also had d: of same size which was free. I first used fips to cut down /dev/hda1 to 10G. Then I booted frm the RH CD and started installation. <br> I used Fdisk, cleared all the partitions but for /dev/hda1 (vfat), created a 10G partition for /dev/hda2 (linux) and 1G partition (/dev/hda3, linux swap). Rest of the 40 G is free. I set active partition to /dev/hda2 and finally came out of Fdisk ( i had pressed w before that). <br> I came to a colourful table. It says I have, at the beginning of /dev/hda, <i>free space starting at 1 and ending at 1 and of 0M size</i>. Then there is /dev/hda1, hda2 and hda3, 10, 10 and 1G in size respectively. This is followed by free space. (I am not sure how the free space got there in the beginning of the disk and how the machine recognize a free space from 1 to 1. I am giving the detail because it sounded odd to me and may be the trouble I face is due to this.)<br> Thereafter I set mount point for /dev/hda2 to "/" and also selected to format it in ext3. I had already given yes as the answer to formatting /dev/hda3. <br> I selected lilo as the boot loader. I wanted it to be located in the first sector of boot partition (/dev/hda2)<br> I did not want any special options to kernel and as i was not sure what lba32 was i did not select the same to be used when asked for. I changed the boot flags to w and l. gave the ip address and Ip mask, left all the other columns blank. selected root password. user name and password. etc. finally the disk was formatted and files were copied. No custom boot disk was made. It asked for monitor setup. It was also done. <br> <b>THE PROBLEM !!!<br> </b><x-tab> </x-tab>The system rebooted, I removed the cds. In normal circumstances, I expected lilo to come up. It did not. No "No system disk" error also was shown. But system does not boot.<br> <x-tab> </x-tab>I again used the RH CD to boot. Gave the command "vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2" (courtesy JJ). The System booted in to the hard disk. X server also worked. But Mouse did not respond. <br> <x-tab> </x-tab>I can therefore boot in to the hard disk by first using the CD and then giving the vmlinuz command but not directly. That is why I fealt that the problem is with Lilo. How Do I fix this? In fact this is the second attempt. I first tried grub. All the circumstances are the same. That also did not work. Since both lilo and grub refuse to work, I think there is something wrong in what I did. But where exactly did I go wrong? and How?<br> <x-tab> </x-tab>I also see that the mouse is not properly selected. I chose Generic III button mouse. I have a logitech scroll mouse. What entry is to be used for that. How do I change the mouse settings once inside linux?<br> I wonder if some one stumbled on a similar problem!<br> All responses welcome. One lesser request. I am a very new entrant in to linux. So a detailed explanation of what is being suggested to be done would be most welcome, so that I can understand what I am trying to do. <br> Deeply obliged for reading this long mail. Sorry if it annoyed any one. <br><br> HARI</html>
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