[juneau-lug] Re: Slackware 7.1

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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