Re: Help: problem with booting from HD
Thank you for the suggestion. this is what I got so far. I repartitioned
the disk with a 500mb primary partition for DOS (06) (some of my pc
friends insisted I put DOS as the first one :-), forllowed with
two 300mb primary linux partitions, and a 64mb logical linux swap, and
3 or 4 logical partitions. i installed Win95 first. ( after all the time
wasted, I finally figured out Win95 install chews up the MBR), and then
installed BC (bc /i 3), which worked great. I could select different
boot partition without problem.
Then I installed Linux from 6 floppies into the 2nd partition, and make
the hard disk bootable (I suppose that made LILO installed onto the 2nd
partiton) but didn't touch the MBR. When I restart, first I got to see
the BC, and select the Debian (2nd) partition, and saw "LILO Loading Linux
Uncompressing Linux..."
"crc error
System halted"
and it just died there.
btw, can someone explain to me this error. I am really a newbie.
I could boot from the custom boot floopy without problem.
here is the /etc/lilo.conf I can't think of a way to attach the file, so
I am typing it in.
--
boot=/dev/hda2
root=/dev/hda2
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
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/vmlinuz points at /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.27, which is there.
Also I was trying to use dselect to do the install from Yggdrasil Winter 97
CD collection's Debian 1.1 i386 distribution. dselect asked me to "enter
the block device name" what I suppose to enter.
also, I read some where that i can mount the CD with command like
mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/sonycd_31a /mnt
but sonycd_31a is not there. Is there any other device I can use?
I will probably have a lot more questions to come :-)
please also cc the reply to me. thank you.
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Ray Zhang ~{UESjLo~} ray@eris.umb.edu http://www.cnd.org/HYPLAN/ray/
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