Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 startup problem
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: Somebody help me please, After installtion of my MandRake 7.0 is doesn't boot/startupB. When I boot it with my Floppy created bootdisk during installation it start/boot. How do I configure my new Linux Box to startup from hardisk? thank you! We need to know if your using lilo or grub. Then you should post the appropriate conf file. either '/etc/lilo.conf' for lilo, or '/boot/grub/menu.lst' for grub. Also post '/etc/fstab' and the ouput of 'fdisk -l' (you can copy and paste from Konsole) If you review these files yourself and are sure they're correct for your system, then running (as root) '/sbin/lilo' or '/sbin/grub' should allow you to boot from HDD. Problem is if they aren't correct, you'll prob'ly make things worse :( An easier and faster solution would be to boot from the Mandrake installation CD and choose 'upgrade'. Might fix it, might not. I suspect this would only work if you chose not to install a bootloader (eg, lilo) during your initial install. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 startup problem
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Linux Neophite wrote: Somebody help me please, After installtion of my MandRake 7.0 is doesn't boot/startupB. When I boot it with my Floppy created bootdisk during installation it start/boot. How do I configure my new Linux Box to startup from hardisk? thank you! Did you create a small boot partition at the beginning of your harddisk for LILO to be at? MD 7.0 needs that. Lilo cannot boot from anywhere beyond cylinder 1024 in that release. MDK 7.1 seems to have fixed that problem, I do not know yet, since I still have to get that one. Paul -- If you lose money, you lose nothing. If you lose (the) honour, you lose a lot. If you lose your courage, you've lost everything. But if you lose friendship, then you've lost the world! )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 startup problem
Paul wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Linux Neophite wrote: Somebody help me please, After installtion of my MandRake 7.0 is doesn't boot/startupB. When I boot it with my Floppy created bootdisk during installation it start/boot. How do I configure my new Linux Box to startup from hardisk? thank you! Did you create a small boot partition at the beginning of your harddisk for LILO to be at? MD 7.0 needs that. Lilo cannot boot from anywhere beyond cylinder 1024 in that release. MDK 7.1 seems to have fixed that problem, I do not know yet, since I still have to get that one. Paul -- If you lose money, you lose nothing. If you lose (the) honour, you lose a lot. If you lose your courage, you've lost everything. But if you lose friendship, then you've lost the world! )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 I believe that is the case, however it's still very benificial to create a /boot partition for the boot files to reside in/on. That way at boot time there is much less to be initialized at the git-go and Linux loads much faster. -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563
