A success story

[Wiz]

The local LUG had an installfest yesterday (Sunday.) One young lady brought in an AMD box with a 25G drive, with Win98 on it. She wanted to split the drive, and load Linux on half of it. Of course, you can all see where I'm going with this; LILO didn't work. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

Me: "Well, there's two ways to fix this; either Grub or the new version of Lilo."

Everyone else: "Huh? New Lilo?"

A quick trip to freshmeat for the new version fixed everything up; her computer booted just fine.

I was very pleased to find that I knew something the ubergeeks didn't, and I owe it all to my friends here at LNO. It's fun being a hero, y'know? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

The moral of this is that when something goes wrong, let's not forget to check the simple stuff.

[This message has been edited by Wiz (edited 23 October 2000).]

[ille_pugil42]

alright! Way to go!

[Sterling]

May I assume you were trying to load RedHat 6.2 onto an AMD box? There are serious problems with that, and very few people have ever found out about them.

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[joweilee]

Debian 2.2 (potato) includes a version of LILO that can boot off drives bigger than 8GB in size.

[Wiz]

Originally posted by Sterling:
May I assume you were trying to load RedHat 6.2 onto an AMD box? There are serious problems with that, and very few people have ever found out about them.



Yeah, that's what we were doing. The only issue that surfaced, though, was the lilo problem, which was easily fixed. (Actually, we were using an up-to-the-minute freshened RH6.2, provided by one of the local firms who supports RH. I have it on my AMD, also, with no problems. 'Course, I don't worry about dual-booting mine. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif)

[This message has been edited by Wiz (edited 25 October 2000).]

[Lorithar]

*grins at Wiz*

FYI slack 7.1 comes with the new lilo.
which is a good thing as I now have a 15 gig drive in my slack box.
Sterling ...the only problems I've run into on the AMD K6 150 (oc'd to 200) box I had can be DIRECTLY pinned to the presence of an old (ATA-1) style hard drive that I was using for swap space. -- Every time the swap pages were called back in in blocks greater than 64 ( ie under heavy load where page recalls can accumulate into a stack) the drive would lag so far behind the rest of the system that the calling program would segfault.
Other than that the slack box has been rock solid. (especially now that the drive is gone)

[Wiz]

Originally posted by Lorithar:
Sterling ...the only problems I've run into on the AMD K6 150 (oc'd to 200) box I had can be DIRECTLY pinned to the presence of an old (ATA-1) style hard drive that I was using for swap space. -- Every time the swap pages were called back in in blocks greater than 64 ( ie under heavy load where page recalls can accumulate into a stack) the drive would lag so far behind the rest of the system that the calling program would segfault.


That might be the reason I've never had that problem, then; I hardly ever touch the swap partition. Ran into an extremely good deal on PC-133 a while back; as a result, I've got 512MB in my box. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

(I'm gonna grab 256 of it for the new TBird I'm building. <g> )

[blackwolf_c]

Originally posted by Sterling:
May I assume you were trying to load RedHat 6.2 onto an AMD box? There are serious problems with that, and very few people have ever found out about them.



WHAT ISSUES?!?!?!?


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