On Wednesday 08 Jan 2003 3:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This solution worked for the installation, was able to install 9.0 > > beautifully, but now I can't actually log onto 9.0..goes blank when I > > try. Got one problem fixed lol now to figure out the rest. > > > > Walt > > Hopefully Walt or anyone with the same problem can help me through this. > > I am referring to the K7VMM MoBo installation problem with Mandrake 9.0. > I was about to follow the Mandrake 9.0 installation patch specified on > their website (with the CTL/ALT/F2 etc...) and then noticed that although > you (Walt) were able to successfully install it with this technique, it > would not boot up anyway. > > Did you ever get this to finally boot up nicely? If so, what did you need > to do? I on the same boat.... K7VMM mobo. > > I look forward to your response or anyone else whom has some input. > > Regards, > Frank
Frank - this sounds familiar to me. When I first set up 9.0 I could boot into that, but not into 8.2. After much help from the list I found that it happened because I had a /boot directory in each install (which is what happens if you don't make a separate /boot partition). You need to know which of those is being read by the boot process. If you can't find out, try this solution on both of them - it will do no harm, although only one of them will be used. In the old /boot directory,find the file called initrd-2.4.whatever and the vmlinuz-2.4.whatever. Copy them into the new /boot directory. Do the same the other way round, copying them from the new into the old. You will end up with two similarly named files for each, in my case initrd-2.4.18-6mdk.img and initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img, and the same for the vmlinuz entries. Boot is only reading one of these, and it needs to be able to find both versions, depending on which you choose in lilo. HTH Anne
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