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"boot failed" in first boot after installation

"boot failed" in first boot after installation

Post by antho » Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:25:06



i have a problem with my newly installed RH7.2.
during the installation, i chose to boot up linux with a boot floppy and did
not install any boot loader. however, after the installation finished and the
machine restarted, the respone was some kinda of message "SYSLINUX...boot
failed". i suspected that the floppy i used to creat the boot disk was not
working properly......kindly please help advise what i should do to boot into
linux and creat another boot disk??

i've tried to make another disk with boot.img and RAWRITE from RH FTP site but
the disk created seems to help with boot up machine for installation only...

thanks very much in advance for any help.

cheers

 
 
 
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"boot failed" in first boot after installation

Post by Andrew Fure » Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:05:54


Quote:> i've tried to make another disk with boot.img and RAWRITE from RH FTP site but
> the disk created seems to help with boot up machine for installation only...

Try using that disk, and on the prompt put in "linux root=/dev/blah"
(replacing blah with whatever hard disk partition you installed as / -
maybe hda1). That _should_ boot up your installed system, having loaded
the kernel from the floppy. You can then try making another boot disk.

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