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Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3



On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Joerg Friedrich wrote:

> Hi everybody!
> 
> I'm new to Debian. Yesterday I tried to install Debian 1.3, and I got 2
> problems:
> 
> 1. Installation.
> 
> Everythig workes fine, until I selected 'Make the Hard Disk Bootable'.
> There was an error message like 'Can't install lilo on second Hard Disk' (I
> can't remember exactly). I installed Linux on my second scsi-drive: 
> /dev/sdb7  > /     (40 MB)
> /dev/sdb9  > /usr  (1.5 GB)
> /dev/sdb10 > /home (250 MB)
> /dev/sdb11 > /var  (150 MB)
> /dev/sdb12 > swap
> 
> I have already installed OS/2-Bootmanager in /sda1. At the moment I need to
> use a bootdisk to start Linux :(

Joerg,

If you are using OS/2 Boot Manager, you should NOT select the 'Make the
Hard Disk Bootable' option.  Instead you should install LILO on the root
partition of your hard disk (the /dev/sdb7 partition should be made
bootable, however).

Then you need to configure Boot Manager to add Linux to the menu
(pointing to /dev/sdb7) and configure /etc/lilo.conf appropriately to
point to where LILO and the kernel, etc., are located (see the appropriate
HOWTO for LILO). 

Bob

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