On Fri, 14 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 19:53:16 +0100 (BST)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: Jim Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: your mail
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> On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Jim Roland wrote:
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> > Not booting I just loaded a new PII-266 system with Linux 2.0.30
> > (Slack 3.3) and now when LiLo boots via the MBR on the ide drive, it LILO
> > comes up, boots the kernel, and the kernel boots. It get to the point of
> > mounting read-only, and then just stops with no disk activity.
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> > I can boot with a LILO diskette by supplying "mount root=/dev/hda6" as
> > parameters, and it goes to the same point, mounts read-only, checks the
> > drive, then remounts as read-write and goes its merry normal way.
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> > I have tried reinstalling LILO, and even redoing the kernel. No luck.
> > The Kernel is okay since it's being booted from a LILO diskette just fine.
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> > Help!
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> Did you move the kernal image from /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage
> (or whatever) to /vmlinuz ?
> is /vmlinux correctly referanced in /etc/lilo.conf
> did lilo say adding /dev/hda6 when it was fiddling with the boot sector ?
> or something like blah out of range ?
> span...
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No. Remember, the kernel actually booted. I copied it out of the
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot directory (where vmlinuz is created after
"make zImage"), followed by the command lilo which re-added the partitions
with my symbolic names, just like my other machines. Something was
screwed. I even went so far as to boot to the other partition
(Win95--sorry it's at work--I have to run it), do a fdisk /mbr, and
reinstall lilo. No dice. I even ran "make install" which auto-copies the
zip-image of the kernel in place, renames the old one to vmlinuz.old, and
even runs lilo for you. No luck there either.
I gave up and reinstalled. All seems okay now.
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