Linux can only reside on um.. is it up to hdb or hdc? I was once told that
Linux (the boot patition) cannot be on hdd (secondary slave).
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Vikas wrote:
> I am trying to install rh linux *for the first time* and using FTP
> download.
>
> I have 2 HDD = 4Gig + 10 Gig and 32Meg ram on Celeron300.
> One has Win98. the second hdd(10g)
> (except 2gb) all is for linux. I partinined them as
>
> /boot = 16M hdd2(all on the second harddisk)
> / = 2048M hdd3
> swap = 64M
>
> To start I download all "base {...}" files specified in base/comps file.
> After a week long ups and downs the installer finally showed me the
> "congratulations!" dialog.
> Now when I rebooted I expected LILO but
> "L 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 ...." was continuisly getting printed. *my MBR
> has gone!!!!!*
> (thanks! I had saved by MBR and partinioned records already as backups)
> I tried the boot disk that was created and it took at least 10minutes
> to load linux from the floppy disk and asked
> "Runlevel:" :-(
> In the docs I read "/etc/inittab" has the problem and
> "boot: linux single" as a safe mode to solve such problems.
> "id:3:initdefault:" should be added in that file.
> The single user mode prompt was "bash#" and whoami="root".
> But when I say "cat >inittab" it prints readonly file system.
> "chmod 777 inittab" and all other commands print the same error!
> So the first problem in LILO is not working. Should /boot partition
> should be in my first HDD?
> Then I cannot set the default runlevel until I get the access=RW. How to
> do that?
>
> Please help.
> Thank you very much.
> Vikas
>
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