Robert Wagoner wrote: > > Janyne, > > There are several possibilities here, depending on how the setup was > done. > > Do you still have a utility partition? Run fdisk /dev/sda to make sure > it still exists.
Yes, in fact when I boot from the Utilities CD and go to create it again it says one already exists, do I want to update it? > If you let the Red Hat installer take the entire drive, it would have > deleted the Dell utility partition. No, I partitioned it by hand and left the existing partition in place/ > If the utility partition is intact, you may still have a problem if > it's not flagged bootable in fdisk. Ah! Good point. I'll have to check this out. > Typical installs flag the /boot partition as the default one to start. > You can change that, > but grub and/or lilo trickery may also be needed. Boo! OK, this puts me on the right track at least. > > Tell us more about your configuration, and I'll see if I can help. > > (Mine is Oracle8i, RH7.2, dual-CPU PowerEdge, happy, happy) PowerEdge 2400 dual CPU, 1 GB RAM with RH 7.2. Using the servers to boot diskless xterms via tftp and then use as a file server. > -- > Robert > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/20/02 1:41 PM >>> > I have some Dell 2400 servers that I plan to deploy with RH 7.2. I > have > run into a small problem with the Utilities paritition on these > machines. I create the partition and I can boot from it fine. I > install > Linux and I can no longer boot from it. I don't know if that > overwrote > something or what. Have any of you run into this situation? > -- > > Janyne Kizer > CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 > Systems Programmer Administrator I > NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences > Extension and Administrative Technology Services > Phone: (919) 515-3609 > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Extension and Administrative Technology Services Phone: (919) 515-3609
