On Sunday 03 November 2002 22:10, Rick Bailey wrote:
I have an Internet Appliance (I-Opener) that I have hacked to work with an
external hard drive.
I'd like to dual boot Win98SE and Linux Mandrake on it.
I installed the hard drive in another machine, and copied win98 setup
files, and ran the mandrake installation up to the first reboot, and then
took the drive out and placed it in my i-opener.
I cannot boot into linux mandrake, it's giving me some kind of init not
found error message.
I've figured out how to use a program call Winux that uses loadlin and at
least get into a text version of linux. I've tried to start kde from the
command line, but it looks like I don't have any of the environment
variables set.
Is there any way to repair this from the console line? I'm thinking that
maybe if I can get kde running, there might be some sort of user interface
to help me repair it? The other issue is that since this is an internet
appliance, I don't have a cd rom or floppy drive.
Any suggestions on how to tackle this?
Thanks,
Rick
Well if you're on the commandline in Mdk (init1 probably) just run lilo again
by typing /sbin/lilo (not the quotes) and hitting enter.
You'll see output that lilo is being reinstalled. Then reboot into Mdk.
That's the usual way if an existing lilo got lost somewhere.
If that doesn't work for you you'll have to be more specific about this hacked
i-opener and how it boots...you might have to edit /etc/liloconf.
Remeber to run /sbin/lilo to get your changes to work, just rebooting won't
do the trick!
Good luck,
Harm
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