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Re: [PLUG] SuSE 7.1 Issues
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Bob Razler wrote:
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(bunch of info about boot problems with LILO...)
It doesn't sound like you're doing anything seriously wrong... I've run
both SuSE 6.4 and 7.1, on a couple machines, and don't have trouble.
Although I should add that moving disks around tends to make LILO
unhappy.
How about this: try booting off the 7.1 install CD in the situation
where LILO fails. Just insert the CD and boot the machine (is the CDROM
drive in the machine bootable?). When it starts the install process, at
the first screen, abort the install. It will warn you the install isn't
complete (we know...), continue out of the install. The next menu will
give you a bunch of choices, one which includes 'boot installed system'
(or something similar, my system's at home). Then you'll get another
menu that actually has a choice to boot the system, When you choose it,
you need to enter the boot partition (ie, on my system, that's
/dev/hdd2. For you I'm guessing a SCSI partition, maybe /dev/sda1 or
something.) When you hit return, it should boot.
How many partitions did you set up in your install? And what's the
layout of mounted partitions? I ask, because if you move the partitions
by changing SCSI id's, you may be able to boot from the boot partition
with the CD boot, but then the system will generally fail to mount the
other partitions in your system because they have different IDs. (For
example, a /usr partition on /dev/hda2 becomes /dev/hdb2 if I move an
IDE drive from interface A primary to secondary.) Look at the file
/etc/fstab to see what mounts you have setup. You can also see these
settings in 'yast' on SuSE (and maybe YAST2, although I don't use it.)
A final caution, if you run LILO, then move disks (any disks, not just
the one's involved with the Linux setup) so that their IDs change, LILO
may fail to boot the system. Something to keep in mind. I routinely
swap IDE drives around, and you either need to boot from CD or have
multiple LILO setups (I use LILO boot floppies, so I can throw one in
the drive that matches the hardware setup.)
--
Kevin Brosius
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