This is great info as I decided to move my 2 hard disks, cdrom and burner
around so that the cdrom/burner were on different id channels. Guess what,
could not boot linux as my disks had moved and could not find my rescue disk
and my floppy drive is not working properly. Theres probably a loose cable
somewhere which is not bad considering i took my pc apart while off work
with a broken elbow haa haa. I ask my wife to help with those awkward bits
but this nearly ended in divorce haa haa.
I will try and get linux from the tomsrootboot cd
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Allan M Bruce
> Sent: 09 July 2001 10:32
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [scottish] Boot
>
>
> This worked just perfect, thanks everybody for the feedback - now I just
> need to try and get my modem working
> Cheers
> Allan
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colin McKinnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 8:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [scottish] Boot
>
>
> > At 20:36 08/07/01 +0100, willie fleming wrote:
> > >Allan
> > >
> > >try the following first
> > >
> > >boot into Linux using the CD (Dunno how this is done in
> Redhat, I presume
> > its
> > >similar to SuSE "Boot Installed system" in YAST)
> >
> > Unfortunately not - this is spookily fresh in my memory as my primary HD
> > died on Thursday so I had to reinstall MSWindoze (don't ask)
> and Lilo on a
> > fresh disk - The install kernel image does not recognise a "root=..."
> > option, and the /dev on the initrd ramdisk doesn't have any IDE devices.
> In
> > plain english....it's really hard to reinstall lilo from the stock RH
> distro.
> >
> > For me, anyway. Maybe I was doing something stupid.
> >
> > I eventually rebooted with the linuxcare bootable business card I got at
> > one of the SLUG meets using the existing root partition....
> >
> > LILO: linux root=/dev/hdb2
> >
> > ....Despite the fact that it was a RH7.1 (kernel 2.4.x) and the
> linuxcare
> > CD is a 2.2.x kernel it all booted up OK (a few messages about
> symbols on
> > modules which shouldn't be a problem unless you've got some weird SCSI
> > setup). I ran lilo, rebooted and hey presto!
> >
> > Obviously, you probably don't have a LinuxCare cd card handy....try
> > downloading TomsRootBoot floppy (http://www.toms.net/rb/) and
> running with
> > the appropriate command line.
> >
> > Let us know how you get on....
> >
> > Colin
> >
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