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> Thanks to all in this group. I was able to get my ASUS P2B-D
> system to run with both NT and Linux. The FAQ was very helpful
> in identifying what hardware to shy away from and what hard-
> ware has a pretty good record.
>
> Thanks to all those who submitted *exact* instructions on how
> to recompile the kernel AND modules. the FAQ does NOT provide
> detailed enough steps to this very critical SMP question.
> (the sequence should be: make config; make dep; make clean;
> make install; make modules; make modules_install).
>
> I made two stupid errors which added a lot of fustration. one
> was a LILO misunderstanding which might be added to the FAQ:
>
> (a) I have two IDE drives in this system. one 5.1GB and one 9.1GB.
> I put NT on the smaller drive with - and this is the
> important part - a 1GB MSDOS partition (that is 4.1GB NT and
> 1.0GB of MSDOS). I did not format with system the MSDOS
> partition. i put LINUX on the 9.1GB drive. it found all the
> partitions correctly. BUT, it made a LILO entry for the MSDOS
> partition. when it came to the part in the installation where
> it asks if you want to install the boot loader it failed with
> *NO* hint on why LILO didn't work. I spent two weeks reading
> zillions of LILO writeups which resulted in nothing. then, I
> took the advice of the mini LILO-HOWTO. i booted from floppy and
> ran LILO by hand with two (2) "-v" switches. Lo and behold
> i saw an error message when it attempted to write something
> for the MSDOS partition. it then occured to me i had never for-
> matted that partition with system e.g. non-bootable. therefore
> i manually removed that part from lilo.conf and re-ran LILO.
> :) :) :) :) :) moral: don't create non-bootable partitions or
> manually remove the parition from LILO.conf. RH: why not run
> LILO with the two "-v" switches so that the output is accessible
> from ALT-F4/F5 during install? finally, remember that LILO works
> best and easist if the target drive containing the boot-loader is
> on IDE controller 1. don't get a Phd. by trying to put it on IDE
> controller 2; it will not work.
> (b) here is a *possible* short-cut for those, who like me, love pro-
> gramming but do not wish to a get a PHd. in linux system admin.
> when installing LINUX along side NT. here's what to do.
> (1) install NT on a single HDD. at this point forget about linux
> (2) take out the NT drive; put it aside
> (3) put in your linux HDD (as with step 1, on IDE controller #1
> as master).
> (4) install linux. the install programs for RH and mandrake RH
> are remarkably simple to follow.
> (5) put your NT disk in the system either as a slave HDD on IDE
> controller #1 or as master on IDE controller #2. if you have
> a CDROM it will probably already be the slave unit on IDE #1.
> (6) use vi, to manually add an entry for NT in lilo.conf. (use
> fdisk to on /dev/hda for IDE1 or /dev/hdc on IDE #2 followed
> by 'p' at the fdisk prompt to get partition info).
> (7) re-run lilo as root like this "lilo -v -v"
> the only downside to this approach, is that when you choose NT
> from the LILO prompt, it runs the OS-LOADER for NT. this prompts
> you which OS to run (usually NT or NT-VGA). this solution is not
> as nice as others i admit. but it is easier; there is less to
> go wrong.
>
There are a million storys in the naked city...
> and the end of all this, i have two questions:
>
> (a) after i recompiled the kernel and modules (using Mandrake 6.0)
> everything almost works fine ... when the system boots it works
> OK till it says "finding module dependencies". the HDD access
> light stays lit for a sec or two then goes off. the system stops
> apparently hung. I press CTRL-C and presto: the system continues
> to boot OK (in init level 5 [or 5s; the CTRL-C obscures some
> text]). everything else works 100% per the book. ideas?
Check /var/log/messages for error messages and /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
to see wich line is causing the trouble.
> (b) i need to get a good shareware version of motif? any recommend-
> ations?
>
Try http://www.lesstif.org/
> thanks, again, to all who have helped! it is appreciated!
>
> very best regards,
> shane
>
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