[Linux-Anyway] Re: I give up
- From: John Richard Smith <BAGSOFCHOICE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:56:45 +0000
Meph Istopheles wrote:
>
>As it turns out, I can't even get RH 7.1 to work. Booted once,then nothing.
>
>OK, so the hard drives may be bad.
>hda (40GB). There are two Linux partitions
>
>hdb (27GB) &
>hdd (80GB) nothing on
>
This was to be an all linux machine ?
What does bios say about your drives ?
Does it recognise them ?
Does bios recognise their size correctly ?
You have your drives,
IDE line 1 with hda+hdb , master/slave ?
IDE line 2 with cdrom+hdd, master/slave ?
You attempted to install a linux OS on one of the linux partitions on hda ?
Did you create any other partitions for that OS, ie /home, /swap ?
If you had the choice, would you prefer to have a dualboot W98/Linux, or
all linux box ?
During installation , especially in hardware detection(the early part of
the install procedure) did you receive any warning messages. During the
various install procedures were there any warning messages ?
The installer installed a bootmanager ?
Have you tried the floppy disc you ought to of created during the install ?
Do you get a linux bootloader flash screen , if so, have you tried
failsafe ?
There are many options available to you yet before you need to write
linux off.
The reason I ask about dual booting with W98(which you obviously are
familliar with) is that it is surprisingly easy to install a linux OS
together with windblows, and then at least you do have a working OS for
the time being, plus if you find yourself in a position where you are
having problems getting a piece of equipement to work, and you may need
for instance to import a file via that device then you can import it in
W98 and transfer it across to linux.
John
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