auful time

[mikehoward111]

Man, I am having a heck of a time reloading a distribution. I need to set up in my test environ a RH 6.2 version on a box previously containing SuSE 7.0. FOr the life of me, I cannot get the thing to boot. First, it was and 0x10 error when booting from disk. Then, it became a kernal panic and 'In swapper talk not syncing' message (whatever that means). What the hey. Does anybody have a sure fire way to get the d*m* thing to work? I simply want to load a distribution. Ain't rocket science.

[mikehoward111]

Just another note to let everyone know how auful a time I'm having right now. Just reloaded the SuSE version that was loaded before (since reformatted several times), took the 'minimal' load and the thing booted up like a charm. Did the same thing w/ RH 6.2 on the same machine choosing the 'server' load and I'm getting the same blessed problem. So... does RH just really SUCK or is it something to do w/ the fact that I had SuSE on before?

[mikehoward111]

Okay. I give up. Time to put my NT server back on line...

[Linuxcool]

No guarantee that this will work. At the prompt enter linux x86_serial_nr=1.

[mikehoward111]

Thank you. THis worked great. I didn't load lilo this time... just a boot disk. Will I have to write this everytime?

[Linuxcool]

If you don't use lilo, I believe you'll always have to type it in. If you use lilo, you can put it into an ' append= ' line. Like this: append="x86_serial_nr=1"

Here's the page (http://kb.redhat.com/view.php?eid=42) I got the info from.

[ 30 October 2001: Message edited by: Linuxcool ]

[mikehoward111]

Perfect. Thank you. This may explain why my SuSE distrib. would run fine on the machine.

[Linuxcool]

You're welcome. :)