[juneau-lug] Re: Slackware 7.1
- From: Toby <tobysam@xxxxxx>
- To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 18:21:16 -0900
I got it all figured out now. For one thing, I didn't have the drive
partitioned properly. For another, I used the wrong image to create the lilo
boot floppy. Oh well.
I still can't get lilo to run off of the hardrive, but it's probably
something simple that I did wrong. So far, so good 8)
Toby
Btw, thanks james.
On 11/9/01 2:25 PM, "James Zuelow" <jamesz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Toby" <tobysam@xxxxxx>
> To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 2:03 PM
> Subject: [juneau-lug] Slackware 7.1
>> At the end of the installation it prompted me on how I wanted to
>> set up LILO. I picked the option to create a floppy disk. I couldn't get
> it
>> to create a floppy disk, so I decided to do that later. I rebooted the
>> system, and now it won't do anything, except load from the slackware
> bare.i
>> floppy I created.
> I always put lilo on the hard drive mbr. It sounds like you created a 'boot
> disk required' situation - server admins do that a lot to (help) keep
> control over the server (it won't boot without the floppy). But when you
> had trouble creating the boot floppy, something got messed up.
>
> Running off that, I can't mount anything from the
>> hardrive, or run the install CD. It does recognise that both are there.
> The
>> hardrive is formatted in 4096b blocks. Does that make any difference?
>>
> It recognises them, but won't let you mount them? What error messages do
> you get?
>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Toby
>>
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