How do you boot the machine exactly ?
With a floppy, or the hd ?
There must be at least a vmlinuz.... and System.map in your /boot dir.
Did you install a precompiled kernel and looked at /boot after the
install ?
On Sunday 22 April 2001 19:56, you wrote:
| Can't do anything with lilo. I looked in my /boot
| directory and it is absolutely empty. I don't know
How did you seen it if you can't boot ?
| how the thing even boots. I have tried to install
| Mandrake on this machine several times and get this
| same problem over and over. Oddly enough though Red
| Hat 7.1 will install flawlessly and boots quickly
| without problems.
|
| --- Eric MC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > Look at /lib/moules/2...........mdk
| > if there is a modules.dep
| > If not try first to reinstall a precompiled kernel
| > and look again.
| > Check also your /etc/lilo.conf if it is updated with
| > this new installed
| > kernel. If not add them and do a lilo -v.
| > I suppose it's not your first kernel you install ?
| > Eric MC
| >
| > On Saturday 21 April 2001 23:13, you wrote:
| > | I have found that since Mandrak 7.1 after a clean
| > | install on my main workstation, that during boot
| >
| > up
| >
| > | the system hangs at finding module dependencies.
| >
| > I
| >
| > | was quite hoping to remove windows from my machine
| > | with the release of Mandrake 8.0 but have found
| >
| > the
| >
| > | same problem exists with this version as well. I
| >
| > have
| >
| > | no problems of this nature with other
| >
| > distributions.
| >
| > | Do I need to recompile my kernel?
| > |
| > | =====
| > | Jon K. Miller
| > |
| > | ----------------------------------
| > | Microsoft is not the answer.
| > | Microsoft is the question.
| > | Linux is the answer.
| > |
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| > --
| > Then there's the story of the man who avoided
| > reality for 70 years
| > with drugs, sex, alcohol, fantasy, TV, movies,
| > records, a hobby, lots of
| > sleep... And on his 80th birthday died without ever
| > having faced any of
| > his real problems.
| > The man's younger brother, who had been facing
| > reality and all his
| > problems for 50 years with psychiatrists, nervous
| > breakdowns, tics,
| > tension,
| > headaches, worry, anxiety and ulcers, was so angry
| > at his brother for
| > having
| > gotten away scott free that he had a paralyzing
| > stroke.
| > The moral to this story is that there ain't no
| > justice that we can
| > stand to live with.
| > -- R. Geis
|
| =====
| Jon K. Miller
|
| ----------------------------------
| Microsoft is not the answer.
| Microsoft is the question.
| Linux is the answer.
|
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