Hi, Thanks for your continuous support and time spent. The problem is now solved by re-installing RH7.2. But I am still interested to find out its cause and its remedy for future use.
On Monday 17 December 2001 22:18, you wrote: > Does a bootdisk work? If so, it's probably a geometry mismatch. If not, > or if you didn't make a bootdisk to try it with, there's more work. > Here's what's needed if you can't test it with a bootdisk or it failed > using that, too. A bootdisk worked but have to use 'I', the interactive operation, to turn off WINE. How to find out geometry mismatch ? > The second stage boot loader has been started, but it can't load the > descriptor table from the map file. This is typically caused by a media > failure or by a geometry mismatch. How to rectify it in future if its failure is due to geometry mismatch ? Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen > I'd first look at the "geometry mismatch" part to see if that's it. If > it's "media failure" that's so broad as to be almost impossible to track > down. But if it meant that the drive was bad (one possible definition) > then you'd never be able to get it to boot all of the way no matter > what. > > The easiest way to check the geometry is to first find out what the > geometry of the drive should be. Most times it's labelled right on it. > In some, you'll need to lok on the website somewhere to find out. > > Then restart the installation. When you get to disk partitioning, choose > fdisk. At the commandline enter "p" to see what you have. 3 things that > you should note. First, does it have the right number of CHS specified > for what you know it should be? Second, take a look at the "blocks" > column and see if there are any plus (+) signs attached to any of the > numbers. Third, are there any overlaps of partitions (i.e. sda1 ends on > 100 and sda2 starts on 100)? > > If the first instance is a problem, you'll need to go into expert mode > and fix it (too long of an explanation on how, so grab some howtos and > start reading). If the second one is a problem, you'll need to > repartition (maybe even manually) to fix it. (I allowed the installer to > auto partition for me once and it ended up like this. I used it that way > for over 1.5 years before I finally fixed it. A bootdisk will usually > still work if it's this problem.) If the third part is it, same as the > second part: repartition and likely do so manually to prevent the > problem > > That's about the best shot I can make at this point. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
