RH 8 Install

[zaaba]

I have

Windows on /dev/hda1
Linux /boot on /dev/hda2
and "/" on /dev/hda3

Because of the failure to upgrade from 7.3 to 8, I had to do a complete reinstall. However when I boot up, the system freezes at:

INIT: version 2.84 booting

I tried to boot into rescue mode, and now have the install located at /mnt/sysimage!

My lilo.conf.anaconda file looks like this:

prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
linear

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
read-only
append="root=label=/"

other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=dos

Please help

Scott

[mdwatts]

Try this for your /etc/lilo.conf since you have a separate /boot partition where you have of course installed Lilo into.

prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
boot=/dev/hda2 <--- THIS
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
linear

label=linux
root=/dev/hda3 <--- YOUR ROOT PARTITION
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
read-only
append="root=label=/"

other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=dos

You will need to run /sbin/lilo to write the changes to disk.

All is done as root.

[zaaba]

I amended /boot and /root as suggested but cannot run /sbin/lilo.

In linux rescue mode it installs/mounts the root environment in /mnt/sysimage. So lilo is actually at /mnt/sysimage/sbin/lilo.

I tried every combination including full pathnames and ./ in front, but it keeps saying "no such file or directory".

Also here are latest stats from my disk using "fdisk -l" and "df -h":

"fdisk -l"

Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System

/dev/hda1 * 1 710 5703043+ b Win95 FAT32

/dev/hda2 711 723 104422+ 83 Linux

dev/hda3 724 2021 10426185 83 Linux

/dev/hda4 2022 2495 3807405 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)

/dev/hda5 2002 2495 3807373+ 82 Linux Swap

"df -h"

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use Mounted

rootfs 4.3M 1.0M 3.0M 26% /

/dev/root.old 4.3M 1.0M 3.0M 26% /

/tmp/cdrom 644.0M 644.0M 0 100% /mnt/source

/dev/hda3 9.8G 4.0G 5.3G 43% /mnt/sysimage

/dev/hda2 98.7M 16.9M 76.8M 18% /mnt/sysimage/boot


Regards

Scott

[jaelor]

I think I'm having the same problem as you are, never had a hitch with RH 7.3

I downloaded the ISO's for RH 8 and made my own CD's and installed off of them. Installation went on without a problem, but when I rebooted the machine, it hung at:

Freeing Kernel Memory: 212k freed

The cursor would sit their and blink, but the computer was totally unresponsive. I tried several different types of installation, went through all the configs I'm familiar with (and many I'm not) and I couldn't find a thing wrong with it.

I redownloaded the iso's off a different site and reinstalled, and now it gets one line past it to:

INIT: version 2.84 booting

And hangs.

Any suggestions?

This sucks. I want my linux box!!! :(

I had a friend that said it looked like their was a module the kernel loaded that would hang the system shortly after it was loaded, that being the reason it got one step further in the boot process than before.

Can I recompile the kernel using Rescue mode from the RH 8 CD? Anyone got a link to a site that has instructions for that?

Thanks for your help!!!

Jaelor

[jaelor]

Looks like the APM module is buggy on my system. Anyone else have this problem? I'm using GRUB as the boot loader and all I had to do was insert 'apm=off' into the linux load line to get it to work.

Booted up like a charm first time I tried it!!!

Not until after I recompiled my kernel several times and spent three days hacking away at the system.

Really irritatates me when something so simple takes for friggin ever to figure out.

Hope this helps.

L8er!

Jaelor

[TangentX]

I just wanted to thank you for the tip. I was having the same problems so i did what you tried and it worked like a charm.

:)

Sincerely,
Dustin Burda