Re: Lilo on a Thinkpad (fwd)
Anyone have an idea to help him?
It's too bad that Mandrake and Red Hat install flawlessly on his system,
but not Debian... :(
NB: please answer him directly if you can help him, with a cc: to me if
the problem is due to the Debian lilo packaging...
Cordialement,
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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 06:24:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joseph Chandler <jwc_iv@yahoo.com>
To: Vincent Renardias <vincent@ldsol.com>
Subject: Re: Lilo on a Thinkpad
Your not going to like this. Redhat (Actually
Mandrake) installed flawlessly on my Thinkpad last
night. Lilo didn't require any special options and
the install program had no problems mounting my cdrom.
I started out with Slakware 3.0 in 94, moved to Redhat
at 5.1 in 98, and now wanted to try Debian. I've
heard great things about it. Most people say that
it's really stable due to enormous testing, and that
the deb package management is far superior to rpm.
Unfortunately, the install program seems to have some
quirks with non-standard hardware.
Debian mounted the cd from loadlin successfully and
let me use fdisk from the CD. However, when I got to
the 'installation media' selection screen, it failed
to mount /dev/hdb as it had said it did earlier.
Redhat mounted it from the same place so it is now
confirmed that the drive was primary slave. I did
escape to a shell and type mount during the Debian
install. From there I typed 'mount' to find that only
/dev/ram and /dev/hda2 were mounted. So the error was
not from trying to mount a mounted drive.
Again, the other flaw was that the boot.img didn't
work with floppy=thinkpad or with no parameters. The
installed lilo on the MBR did not boot correctly
either. However, I did not get to try the hd=xx,xx,xx
option that we discussed yesterday. I figured it was
not a lilo problem since lilo worked fine with Redhat.
I seriously doubt the version Debian uses is broken
either. What I do suspect is that the install program
installs lilo incorrectly.
I'm not complaining or being harsh. I just thought I
would try and give you as many details about my
situation as possible so that the Debain team could
consider it when enhancing the installation program to
the next phase. If you need any more information
about my hardware or installation experience, just let
me know.
Thanks for your help and quick response,
Joseph
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