> > Hello Linuxers:
> > While installing RH4.0, every step goes through fine until
> > installing LILO step where I get
> > Error occur during step "Install Bootloader"
> > 50$$ for RH4.0 CD get me nothing.
> > Very disappointing!
> > I appreciate it if you could send some workaround.
> > Here is the config of my system.
> > P6 200, adeptec 2940uw, sd1 for NT4.0, sd2 for linux.
> > I want to make a boot disk (third option in LILO step of RH4.0
installation)
> > Thanks!
> > --
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > Dept. of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> I had this problem. I think I fixed it by forcing a reboot after I
> fdisk'ed my drive to create the Linux Native Partition. It required
> several reboots and reloads. It also didn't help that my Win95 fdisk
> program kept deleteing my NT4.0 partitions, I ended using the Linux
> fdisk only.
I had the same set of problems with Redhat (paid the $50 too :-( ), with
the same scsi combination (aha2940). Here's what I did that did work well.
1. got the aic7xxx.img.gz file from redhat ftp site. (boot disk)
2. used the new boot disk for the installation of redhat.
3. (gonna quote from their web page here)
Download the appropriate boot image in binary mode.
Use gunzip to uncompress it.
Use rawrite to write it to a floppy disk,
creating your new boot floppy.
Boot it and do a normal installation or upgrade.
When the installation or upgrade has finished and the computer
reboots, put the boot floppy in the drive and boot off it with the
boot command:
linux root=/dev/sd??
where sd?? is the root partition on which you installed Linux.
After booting, mount the boot floppy, probably like this:
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Then copy the kernel image from the floppy over the default one
provided with the system:
cp /mnt/floppy/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz
Re-run lilo:
/sbin/lilo
Shutdown and reboot:
/sbin/shutdown -r now
At this point, you should have a working Linux system.
And I did :-)
Roy F. Cabaniss
If it came from my account..... ain't no one else responsible.
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