Re: Trouble booting debian on IBM 365XD?
Did (does) the installation floppy (resc1440.bin or whatever) booth the
machine? If so, at the initial "boot:" prompt type "rescue root=/dev/hda1".
See help (ALT-F1) about boot methods.
That should boot your "normal" system except that the kernel itself is
read off of the "rescue floppy".
As root, type "lilo -t -v" to see what lilo "thinks" about your
/etc/lilo.conf file.
Also, although with a standard installation this should not work/or be
necessary; try typing the tab key when the machine "hangs" at the
lilo prompt.
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 03:42:43PM -0300, David Goodyear wrote:
> First I will start by saying that I am a new linux user. I have installed
> the debian operating system on my IBM 365XD. However, when I try to boot
> the system it just hangs after "LILO loading linux". Additionally my
> debian boot floppy doesn't work either (maybe because of the external
> floppy?). Anyway, I had to make a windows 98 boot floppy which has
> loadlin.exe and linux on it. the autoexec.bat file executes loadlin.exe
> ie. " a:\loadlin.exe a:\linux root=/dev/hda1" . This is th only way I
> could boot my system. How can I fix things so that I can boot directly
> from hard disk (/dev/hda1)?
> If anyone has any ideas that I could use to fix this problem, your help
> would be appreciated
>
> David Goodyear
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