Re: Problem Booting After Install

On Fri, 30 May 2003 12:47:35 -0400 "Scott MacMaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, makes me wonder why they use lilo in the installation program for > Debian. I wonder that as well. > The first step, fdformat /dev/fd0, worked ok. However, the next step > didn't, mjfs -t msdos /dev/fd0. I g

Re: Problem Booting After Install

: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:23 PM Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install > On Wed, 28 May 2003 19:07:48 -0400 > "Scott MacMaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Any other thoughts? > > I have two thoughts. > > First,

Re: Problem Booting After Install

Please CC replies since I am not subscribed Scott MacMaster wrote: > > This seemed to have no effect. After looking through the man I found an > option that I can use to specify bootable partition. I tried using that > option but it also had no effects. > > Any other thoughts? Here's a few tho

Re: Problem Booting After Install

On Wed, 28 May 2003 19:07:48 -0400 "Scott MacMaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any other thoughts? I have two thoughts. First, you guys need to learn to trim posts. :) Second, unless there's some reason you enjoy getting beat up by lilo, use grub: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid

Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install

Scott Your problem is a bit different from what I thought it might be. Look at this exchange of comments on what appears to be the identical problem, related to using lilo and having debian on the slave drive. --

Re: Problem Booting After Install

- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 6:11 PM Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install > Scott MacMaster wrote: > > >- Original Message - &g

Re: Problem Booting After Install

Scott MacMaster wrote: - Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:35 PM Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install Scott MacMaster wrote: I was able to view

Re: Problem Booting After Install

- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:35 PM Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install > Scott MacMaster wrote: > > >>>I was able to view

Re: Problem Booting After Install

Scott MacMaster wrote: I was able to view the contents of lilo.conf. Here are the contents lba32 boot=/dev/hdb1 root=/dev/hdb1 install=/boot/boot-menu.b map=/boot/map delay=20 vga=normal default=Linux image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=LinuxOLD

Re: Problem Booting After Install

- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 8:39 AM Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install > Scott MacMaster wrote: > > >>If you use the boot floppy and go into the selection

Re: Problem Booting After Install

Scott MacMaster wrote: If you use the boot floppy and go into the selection process, try pressing Alt-F2 and see if you get to a login prompt. If so, login, and give us the results of: df -h FileSystem Size Used AvailUse% on /dev/hdb1 14G 73M 13G 1%

Re: Problem Booting After Install

- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 2:20 PM Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install [snip] > >Ok, although I have no idea how I would go about changing this since the > >inst

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MAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 2:32 PM Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install > My apologies for coming in late to this thread. When I had lots of > time I used to experiment with various installations, and I vaguely > remember doing the following (if this has be