Booting Up

[C'baoth]

All right guys, give this one a shot. I'm doing yet another re-install of Red Hat (6.1), and so I run through the install process and I choose not to install LILO (parents machine, I use a book disk instead.)
So, it seems to install fine. I reboot with the boot disk in and it brings me to the LILO prompt. So, I type in "linux" and it says

Loading ..............
error 0x10 (or something like that)

All I can say is... WTF?

[MandK_10]

I am just throwing out a thought here...It sounds like your floppy has a bad spot on it. (sector..inode whatever).

Fixing it? not sure about that

[C'baoth]

I doubt that. I've tried it three times, with 3 seperate floppies, same result.

[WJWheels]

I'm in kinda the same boat. I just installed Mandrake-Linux on a separate drive in a box with existing win98. Now I can't get it to boot to win98, only Linux. I THOUGHT I installed LILO, and also made a boot disk, but evidently I flubbed up somewhere.

Can I now make a bootdisk that woould allow me to dual boot? If not, how can I get it to boot one system or the other.

In the PC, the drive containing windoze is Primary Master and the Linux Drive ins Secondary Master (if this means anything)

Thanks.

[ThePyr0x]

okay i dont know about the boot disk problem, but i do know how to make the bootloader run windows. you have to edit /etc/lilo.conf
i asked the same question, but i dont know it off hand
i think you have to add something like
other=/dev/(drive windows is on ie. hda)
label=Windows
table=/dev/hda

something like that

[slapNUT]

If you have the CD then use rawrite to create a boot floppy. Suppose from Windoze command prompt and cd= D:
cd d:\dosutils
rawrite
#rawrite asks for image file
d:\images\boot.img
#rawrite asks for destination drive
a:

Now when you boot off this floppy just type this at LILO boot: prompt
linux root=/dev/hdax #where x probably is 2 or whatever partition you loaded linux to. If this works then once booted into linux type this
mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 `uname -r`
This should create you yet another boot disk to add to your growing collection of boot disks :D

[WJWheels]

Originally posted by slapNUT:
<STRONG>
#rawrite asks for image file
d:\images\boot.img
</STRONG>
Well, the images folder contains only blank.img, cdrom.img, hd.img, network.img, other.img, and pcmcia.img.

Maybe blank.img will work. I'll give it a try. Thanks...
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OK, I tried it. But when I type mkbootdisk, it says command not found.

[ 22 July 2001: Message edited by: WJWheels ]

[bdg1983]

C'baoth... How are the drives partitioned?

If you've installed Linux past the 1024 cylinder then perhaps even a bootdisk will not work.

Please provide a few more details.

[C'baoth]

I destroyed the partitions and re-created them. That worked fine. I re-installed it and got X working all purdy. Then I went to boot up again later, and instead of bringing me to my login screen, it brought me to a #bash prompt. Then it wouldn't recognize my root password, so I couldn't do anything. This is infuriating....

[bdg1983]

Something must be wrong with X and due to that, it won't let you login. 'Resyncing too fast' or whatever that error is which could be stopping anyone from logging in.

Rescue disk or boot from CD?

Change /etc/inittab runlevel to 3 and reboot. Hopefully that will let you login and reconfigure X.

Or, if all else fails, don't configure X to start if you have to reinstall again, then you should be able to login.

Respawning too fast...

[ 23 July 2001: Message edited by: mdwatts the 3rd ]

[C'baoth]

It's not X that's the problem. I have it configured not to use the graphical login. Usually, it brings me to the Local Host Login prompt. But all of a sudden it brings me to #bash.

[C'baoth]

BUMP :D