Re: [TCLUG:13808] Newbie RH6.1 install

[Erick Stohr <visuale1@earthlink.net>]

Try an fdisk /mbr and reinstall, make sure to make a boot disk and install LILO
in /master

sams wrote:

> Thanks John That information helped greatly.
> I am now getting closer.  I actually had removed the harddrive setup from
> bios so it said none.
> I reset the cdrive up in bios and now it runs through to the point just
> before getting into Linux where it says "LI"  and just hangs there?
>
> I think that last line is supposed to read "LILO" or something like that...
>
> Thanks again for your help.... Worst case is I do another complete install.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John J. Trammell <trammell@nitz.hep.umn.edu>
> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
> Date: Monday, February 21, 2000 3:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:13808] Newbie RH6.1 install
>
> >Hello again:
> >
> >{more gratuitous text reduction}
> >
> >>>1. what type of computer? ASUS board with AMD K2-400
> >>>3. how big is your hard drive? 8.2gig
> >>>4. what type (SCSI / IDE) hard drive? IDE
> >>>5. is your hard drive master / slave / primary / secondary?
> >>MASTER it is the only drive except for CDrom
> >
> >So the hard drive is the primary master, and the CDROM is the
> >primary slave?  I am curious because usually when I have seen
> >errors like the one in your first message, it has been some
> >problem with the BIOS or the hard drive jumpering setup.
> >
> >>>6. what is your partition scheme? I tried to go simple but
> >>>hopefully adjustable later
> >>
> >> device boot   start/end   blocks   id     system
> >> hda/tmp/4    1-1027    8249346  5   extended
> >> hda/tmp/5     1-12         96327     82  linux swap
> >> hda/tmp/6      13-1027  8152956 83 linux
> >
> >OK, this should work.  I would double check the CDROM and HDD
> >to be certain they're not interfering, and check the BIOS to
> >see if it can detect the drives too.
> >
> >Any suggestions, others?
> >
> >
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