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- From: haen@veces.stgt.sub.org (Herbert Neugebauer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Linux/LILO and Sector Size !!!!!! Help
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <724368372haen.news@veces.stgt.sub.org>
- Sender: news@veces.stgt.sub.org
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 21:26:12 GMT
- References: <724280226haen.news@veces.stgt.sub.org>
- Organization: TRN Porting Labs
- Lines: 53
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- In article <724280226haen.news@veces.stgt.sub.org> haen@veces.stgt.sub.org (Herbert Neugebauer) writes:
- >Hello,
- >
- >Last week I first installed Linux on my HD, and it worked
- >very well from the beginning (using SLS with kernel 0.98pl1).
- >
- >Normally I'm using OS/2, so I wanted to be able to boot
- >Linux without floppy via the bootmanager. I read the faq
- >and got the lilo 0.6 package. (I also got kernel 0.98pl5)
- >
- >Disk paritioning:
- >
- >/dev/sda4 primary C: OS/2 HPFS ~270MB
- >/dev/sda5 log. FAT ~32MB
- >/dev/sda6 log. Linux ext. ~50MB
- >/dev/sda7 log. Linux swap ~25MB
- >/dev/sda8 log. Linux ext. ~27MB
- >
-
- Ok, sorry for wasting bandwidth, I solved the first problem.
- But now there's another, if I select Linux drive from the
- bootmanager, it first seams to work, but only two characters
- are written to the screen
-
- LI
-
- and nothing more, no disk access, disk light off...
- I still have to boot via the boot floppy, which works
- correctly. I compiled kernel 0.98pl5 with the correct
- ROOT_DEV setting (/dev/sda6 which was the error on the
- first try *grin*), and I used the following command
- (after compiling lilo) :
-
- /etc/lilo # lilo -b /dev/sda6 -i boot.b -v -v -v /vmlinux
-
- I also tried the kernel /Image which is pl1, no change.
-
- I also read about exactly the same problem. Perhabs the one
- who had this problem previously solved the problem.
- The disktab file contains the settings that were determined
- using the dparam.com under msdos and partition start valued
- determined with fdisk, so this should be correct.
-
- thanx in advance (again :-)
-
- Herbert
-
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