From: dboese@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Darcy Boese) Subject: Bad SLS 1.03! Bad! Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1993 17:25:30 GMT
Ah well. Here are my known problems with the new SLS 1.03 that weren't there
in the SLS 1.02:
1) Lilo doesn't seem to attach itself to the hard drive boot sector. Which
means I don't get the LILO prompt or anything, it just tells me that I
don't have a valid disk. Booting off the floppy it created works pretty
much though.
I went to the /etc/lilo, edited the config for a timeout of zero (Linux
takes up the whole disk, why wait?) and ran lilo. But it still didn't
attach itself to the disk. What gives? Should I go back to an older
version of lilo? Or is the new one's install different?
2) I've also been experiencing the lock-up bug. After a few minutes or so I
get no more response from the keyboard. I don't know if the whole machine
is locked up or if it just loses track of the keyboard or what.
3) None of the network stuff seems to work at all, even after that auto-config
from the installation.
Here are the good things I like about the new SLS:
1) The screen doesn't switch to yellow with the ATI card by default like the
previous version.
2) Hmm. I guess it just keeps locking up too fast for me to figure any more of
this stuff out. Too bad I put the new SLS over top of my old install disks.
I used the a1.3 disk image from tsx-11.mit.edu instead of rawriting the a1.5
image to a 3.5 inch disk. Could this be a source of my problems? I heard that
the 3.5 inch disk doesn't have NFS install working but the 5.25 inch disk does.
So feasibly this might be what is wrong.