Very Computer

When last you heard from me, I was trying to get SuSE 6.3 to boot from the
hard disk. The corrective steps that I took were:

1. Boot from CD and proceed with installation up to the dialog for
installing Linux from scratch. Press ALT-F2 to get to a new shell
prompt.

2. type:

    mount /dev/sda1 /boot     -- change the partition to match what ever you
did
    mount /dev/scd1 /cdrom  -- again ... adjust
    cp /cdrom/etc/vmlinux.gz /boot
    umount /boot
    umount /cdrom
    reboot

3. At this point, I was still "booting" from the CDROM, but Milo was the
only
thing that was loading. So, after reboot, the MILO> prompt appears, and I
typed:

boot sda1:/vmlinux.gz root=/dev/sda4

Obviously, you will want to change the partitions to fit your system.
At this point, Linux booted from my SCSI disk andthe rest of the SuSE
installation completed. I then mounted my dos partition:

mount -t msdos /dev/sda2 /dos

and copied the necessary milo/linload files:

mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom
cp /cdrom/milo/pc164/* /dos

5. I stopped the system with a shutdown -h 0 and hit the reset switch
6. I built a new ARC boot option for loading from the hard disk.

    Loadidentifier=Boot_Linux_From_Disk
    SystemPartition=scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)
    OsLoader=scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\linload.exe
    OsLoadPartition=scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)
    OsLoadFilename=\milo
    OsLoadOptions=boot sda1:/vmlinux.gz root=/dev/sda4

NOTE: my partitions are:

   sda1    - 20MB, ext2, /boot
   sda2    - 20MB, msdos, /dos
   sda3    - 299MB, swap
   sda4    - 3.5GB, ext2, /

I hope this will help someone else.

George

PS, my next task is to find out why the machine freezes when I use the KDE
browser to look at web pages.