On Wednesday 05 December 2001 08:59 pm, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > > I am running both NT4.0 and Linux (Debian Woody). I recently > installed the 2.4.8 kernel. Since it ran fine from a floppy, > I copied the bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.8 > Ran lilo > dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 > mcopy /bootsect.lnx a: do you have boot=/dev/sda2 in lilo.conf? > > Then under NT copied the bootsect.lnx to C:\ do you have the entry in boot.ini to point to bootsect.lnx? > > and when I reboot and select linux > > it starts up ok but hangs up after LI it happened to me when I forgot to run lilo before dd, or lilo pointed to something else than the place I dd'ed from > > This used to work with the earlier kernels. Am I doing something > wrong or is the procedure changed for the new kernels? > > The processor is a Pentium III Xeon. it is probably an oversight on your side... > > In my home computer, (Pentium II) I did the same thing, but there > I was successful! > > Right now I boot up from the floppy disk, but I'd like to > get away from that. > > Thanks for any suggestions.
cheers, dragos
