Re: hanging on boot; NFS problem in 2.0
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To Philip Jensen, the Maintainers of the Debian installation software
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> During the install when asked if I want to boot off the hard drive,
> and I respond [Yes] it asks which drive (/dev/hda) which is correct,
> then wants to boot /dev/hda2, not /dev/hda7 which is where the Linux
> partition is. I can't seem to change this, or run LILO myself.
LiLo seems to configure itself incorrectly at installation. The problem
equally occurs with versions 1.3 and 2.0. I surmise from several trials
that LiLo would not write into the master boot record if "/" is not a
primary partition but a logical one!
>
> Additionally, booting message off floppy is Loading linux.......
> then stops.
>
You may type at the boot prompt linux root=/dev/hda7 . If the system
comes up, edit /etc/lilo.conf to get
boot=/dev/hda
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
image=/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hda7
label=linux
read-only
then run lilo and reboot.
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To the Maintainers
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The 2.0 rescue disk (both the February and the March versions) may have
an incorrect "mount", neither I nor the local Linux guru could install
the base system by NFS. Furthermore, it can be useful to have the FTP
option for installing the base system, like RedHat has.
With appreciation,
Geza Gyorgyi
% Institute for Theoretical Physics, Eotvos University
% Budapest, Puskin u. 5-7, 1088, Hungary
% e-mail: gyorgyi@poe.elte.hu
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