> Any ideas on why the boot-floppy generator failed? It had no trouble > writing to the floppy. I don't think it's a disk-media problem. It > seems more likely that the installer is writing a bad floppy. What's up > with that? Is this a known problem with the RedHat installer? Is it > related to the switch to ext3? I cannot see that it would have much to do with the switch to ext3. The only time my boot floppies did not work was when my floppy drive was fd1, but as you say, this is not your problem. I still feel better with ext2. What happens when you try to boot using the bad floppy? Does it start loading the kernel? Dpes it end with any error?
> > > Willem van der Walt wrote: > > > I would suggest you go into rescue mode and try to get lilo installed on > > the boot sector from there. > > regards, Willem > > > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Steve Cohen wrote: > > > > > >>Aargh! I am in upgrade hell. > >>I tried to upgrade a system that was running 7.0 to 7.2. It is a dual > >>boot system with Win 98 running in the other partition. The hard drive > >>was partitioned originally using Partition Magic. > >> > >>OK. I started the upgrade and I didn't think it through clearly enough. > >> When it asked me what kind of loader I wanted to use, I thought I > >>should just continue using Partition Magic, so I selected "do not > >>install a boot loader". I followed the advice and upgraded to an ext3 > >>file system. I chose all my upgrade packages and the system upgraded > >>itself. Smoothly, it looked like. I made a floppy and was done. > >> > >>Of course, it didn't work. Partition Magic didn't know doodly squat > >>about my new ext3 file system and hung when I tried to boot it. Win 98 > >>still worked. Ah I thought, I would boot off the floppy. But that > >>failed, said it failed to boot, so was useless. > >> > >>So I got rid of Partition Magic. Uninstalled both it and its companion, > >>Boot Magic. I thought I would go back into the upgrade and try the new > >>GRUB loader. So I rebooted to the CDROM once again, went through the > >>upgrade rigamarole, added a couple of packages, but when it was all > >>done, it said I hadn't changed the kernel, therefore it wouldn't write > >>the boot image to disk!! Even though I'd changed the loader. Tried > >>GRUB, LILO, no matter what I did after this point, it would not write > >>the boot image. I even went in and installed the debug kernel thinking > >>it would see this as a kernel change and write the boot image out. Nope. > >> > >>So I'm stuck here with what is probably a perfectly good Linux partition > >>that cannot load because the installer refuses to write the boot image, > >>and cannot generate a good boot floppy! (Oh yeah, I tried writing it > >>out again to another floppy with the same results). > >> > >>This is REALLY annoying. Is there something I can do in the upgrade > >>process to FORCE it to write the boot image? > >> > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Redhat-list mailing list > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > >> > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
