Installing a newly-built kernel the night before a trip, I was doing too
many things at once and I totally hosed lilo on my Toshiba Portege. It can't
boot: "cannot find setup signature."
I've spent the weekend trying to "rescue" it, but without success. I can't
find a 'rescue.img' or a 'rescue.txt' file. Strike one.
Anyway, this is a good opportunity to better partition the drive. I've been
trying to do a complete re-installation, but again without success.
Here's the situation. The Toshiba has an external floppy drive with its
own port. I have an external CD-ROM drive which works off a pcmcia slot. If
I use the regular boot.img floppy, the CD-ROM drive is not recognized. But,
according to the RH 6.1 Reference Guide, the pcmcia.img should be what I use
to do a CD-ROM installation. Wrong!
When I boot using the pcmcia.img floppy, the cdrom drive is recognized,
but there's no installation option for that. Only nfs, ftp, http, or hard
drive. Strike two.
So, I plug in the network cable to the NIC (the notebook worked just fine
on the network before I hosed lilo), reboot using the pcmcia.img floppy and
try to do a nfs installation.
On the server, I put the cd in the drive and mounted it. Then I exported
/mnt/cdrom to the network and restarted the network. On the notebook, I
entered its static IP address in the dialog box, and the rest was filled in
correctly. In the next dialog box, I entered the server's fully qualified
domain name and /mnt/cdrom for the Red Hat Linux directory. Was told that
that directory couldn't be mounted. Tried again using the server's IP
address, same results. Strike three.
Will someone here please help me? I'm off on another business trip Tuesday
and I'd really like to take the notebook with me. I've RTFM, searched the RH
web site for errata and tried two different installation methods, each of
which should work. Neither does. I really need some help here!
TIA,
Rich
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
Making environmentally-responsible mining happen. (SM)
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