On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> Got another good one for you. It seems that doing a network install of RH 6.2
> does not install Lilo onto the MBR. I discovered this by using Quantum's
> DataEraser utility and zero'd out the first 63 sectors. Then I installed the
> RH dist over NFS and everything worked great. But it didn't boot. So, I did a
> hex dump of the MBR and partition tables.
>
> All I found was a bunch of bytes near the end of the first sector. I assume
> this is the partition table. But, no sign of the usual "LILO" near the
> beginning.
>
> Anyone run into this? Got some hints?
Here I go answering my own questions again...
There is a bug in the rawhide dist of anaconda. When lilo is run, there
is no /boot/message existing. So, it bails out, not installing the required
stuff in the MBR. It gives some odd error like: "/boot/message doesn't
exist.", and it messes up your text screen as well.
To get it to work you need the following diff:
--- lilo.old.py Fri Aug 25 16:25:41 2000
+++ lilo.py Fri Aug 25 16:26:06 2000
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@
lilo.addEntry("install", "/boot/boot.b", replace = 0)
lilo.addEntry("prompt", replace = 0)
lilo.addEntry("timeout", "50", replace = 0)
- lilo.addEntry("message", "/boot/message", replace = 0)
+ #lilo.addEntry("message", "/boot/message", replace = 0)
# XXX edd overrides linear, lba32/linear are mutually exclusive
if self.edd:
lilo.addEntry("lba32", replace = 0)
Lot of crap to just comment out a line! :) The file is located in
RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda
Have fun,
Jeff
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