OK, installed LILO. It doesn't really work. When lilo comes up for me, it refuses to accept keystrokes, so nothing happens until the delay period is over and then it just boots the default system. Any ideas here?
Steve Cohen wrote: > 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? > > > 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
