On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:39:14PM -0600, Robert Aldridge wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Osamu. Believe me, if I had a way of networking > this laptop, I wouldn't be doing an install from floppies! :-)
I see. So you have no serial port, no parport, no USB... > The results I described are the results after going through the debian > installer from floppies. I haven't manually edited lilo.conf at all, I > just followed the installer menu to install LILO to MBR. If I boot from > a rescue floppy loading root from a floppy, then mount my partitions, > and drop to a shell, I see the directory structure and files that should > be there. The installer mounts /dev/hda3 as /target and /dev/hda1 as > /target/boot. If I use "nano-tiny" (the editor that comes with the > installer) to view lilo.conf, everything appears to be correct, but > there is no "initrd=" line in there. If you installed like this, you usually do not need it. > Should there be? Also, if I try > 'lilo -C /target/etc/lilo.conf' from the shell, I get a Segmentation > violation error. I do not know much but this is strange. Is yiur BIOS and FDISK use same sector # etc? Check fdisk before you get Segmentation violation error. Also check BIOS setting. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
