From: psittler@tamu.edu (Paul M. Sittler) Subject: Re: [HELP] Can't get SLS to boot, after install. Date: 28 Jul 1993 23:21:35 GMT
C.W. Southern (cws9669@ultb.isc.rit.edu) wrote:
: I am having the hardest time getting Linux running on my machine. I hope
: someone out there in Linux-land can help... Here is some info about my
: system:
: Gateway 2000 486/33DX
: 8 megs of RAM
: 210 Meg IDE drive.
: Partitions:
: /dev/hda1 DOS 16-bit type=6 (~110Megs)
: /dev/hda2 Linux/MINIX type=81 (~90Megs)
: /dev/hda3 Linux/MINIX type=81 (~10Megs)
: Okay here is what I did.. I am trying to install the SLS Package. I have
: all of the disks.
: 1) mkefs -c /dev/hda2 SIZE on the drive (gave me no problems)
: then reboot
: 2) ran doinstall /dev/hda2 (installed sets 'a', 'b' and 'c', no problems)
: 3) Then it make the boot disk there where a few misc errors like:
: ln: halt: file exists <----- what is this
: but other then that there are no problems.
: 4) now the problem. Now I reboot the system and the new boot disk. It
: did it thing (check the comm ports, printer, partition check) then it says:
: [EXT II FS 0.3, 93/04/22, bs=1024, fs=1024, gc=12, bpg=8192, ipg=1290]
: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
: Right here it stops. It does not continue. I let set maybe thinking that
: it takes a really long time. But nothing. Everyonce in a while it does
: access the hard drive, but nothing else.
: I have tried new image files, and check some of the disk, and replace some
: files. Also have change the partition size and the partition type to 83,
: but no change. Also try booting from disk a1.5 using the LILO harddisk
: option. But no change.
: I hope someone out there can give me some help, I have been trying every
: thing for the last few days, and I am about the scrap the project, maybe
: try 386BSD. I would love some help...:)
: chris.
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I had a similar problem. While gnashing teeth and tearing hair, I read the
LILO docs. At the bottom of the problems section it said that (for some
reason) that certain AMI bioses had to have something set differently or
they wouldn't boot.
I do not remember exactly what it was, but it was in the docs for
lilo version 10 and it fixed me right up. Seems like it was at the
end of a section detailing common problems. . .