Yes, I just saw that. Oh well. I just paged through months of the old
archives and found nothing about boot problems. I just realized I made an
error on my last post. When the system gets stuck, it reads, "stage1
stage2 " then hang city...
how do I reconfigure lilo.conf in mandrake when booting from floppy? How
do I do this without the CDROM since the boot from floppy mode does not
recognize the CD drive? Or do I just need to re-install using manual
mode?
Thanks, Michael
Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD
Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine
University of Washington Medical Center
Medical Director, Inpatient and Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs
Puget Sound Veterans Administration Health Care System
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(206) 277-1792
(206) 764-2263 Fax
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Patti Wavinak wrote:
> Just because it keeps bouncing back doesn't mean the list didn't get it
> -- I have rec'd this particular message 4 times now. What I always find
> interesting is when I get the bounced message AFTER I get the message I
> posted. :-)
>
> Patti
> Registered Linux User #184611
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> On 8/18/00, 5:25:35 PM, Michael Hatzakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> regarding [newbie] Boot failure:
>
>
> > Trying to get this sent, but it keeps bouncing back. I am
> > subscribed. Could you post it for me?
>
> > Installed mandrake linux 7.1 perfectly using Automode install, the
> > X-Windows interface during the instal worked fine, it recognized all my
> > hardware, but during the reboot progress it failed. I got something
> like,
> > "Start1 Start2" then it hung. I forget the actual words, but it hangs on
> > boot up and does nothing.
>
> > Tried booting from floppy so I could run and check the lilo.conf, but I
> > could not get the floppy boot to recognmize the CD-ROm during 'Recovery'
> > mode. So I never got a prompt. I used to use RH 5.1, but I am NOT an
> > expert user.
>
> > My hardware:
>
> > E-Machines Pentium II 333mhz
> > 32 mb memory
> > 2Gig HD
> > Partition does include /temp /usr and swap drives
> > CD-ROM IDE
> > NEC Monitor
>
> > Question:
>
> > Do I need to re-run LILO or look at my LILO.conf? In auto install mode,
> I
> > did not specify MBR or 1st drive as my boot method, does it matter which
> I
> > use? I usually use my 1st drive. I also tried to install an old version
> > of Redhat Linux, but it also hung on re-boot. The system works fine with
> > Win98 and Win2000, which is how I polled the hardware to set up linux. I
> > am NOT doing dual boot.
>
> > Thanks, Michael
>
> > Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD
> > Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine
> > University of Washington Medical Center
> > Medical Director, Inpatient and Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs
> > Puget Sound Veterans Administration Health Care System
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > (206) 277-1792
> > (206) 764-2263 Fax
>
> > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Dennis Myers wrote:
>
> > > Test, ignore
> > >
> > >
> > >
