Two Questions
Hi Everyone,
I am a Debian newbie. Actually I'm ALMOST a Linux newbie.
My system environment is as follows:
IBM Mod 365 200 MHz Pentium Pro system (32 MB RAM)
HD 0 is a 2.5 GB IDE (NT 4.0 loaded)
HD1 is a 540 MB IDE (Linux)
Network Card is an IBM Auto 16/4 Token Ring ISA card
I'm using BOOTPART to allow my NT boot manager to boot Linux
Here are my questions/problems:
1. After I installed the base disks and went through the config steps, I got to
the point where I was asked whether I wanted to set up Linux to boot from the
HD. I said 'yes'. I received an error message telling me that it was
impossible to boot from the second HD, even though it used to work fine with
Red Hat 4.2. I was expecting the config program to ask me whether I wanted to
use the MBR or place the boot sector on the first track of the Linux boot
partition, but it didn't.
2. When I tried to reboot the system (by selecting my 'Linux' choice from the
NT boot menu), I got the following screen:
Disk formatted with WinImage 2.20 (c) 1993-95 Gilles Vollant.
Bootsector from C. H. Hochstatter.
No Systemdisk. Booting from harddisk.
Cannot load from harddisk.
Insert Systemdisk and press any key.
3. I inserted my rescue disk and pressed <enter>. At the boot: prompt, I
entered: rescue root=/dev/hdb1
4. The system responded with:
Loading linux . . .
and proceeded with the boot process.
After the normal two dozen or so boot messages, I got to the following point
in the boot process:
Checking all file systems . . .
Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97)
/dev/hdb5: clean, 11/16632 files, 2129/66496 blocks
/dev/hdb6: clean, 2333/92520 files, 22425/368641 blocks
Mounting local file systems . . .
/dev/hdb5 on /home type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hdb6 on /usr type ext2 (rw)
and then my system froze up tight.
I suspect that the boot freezeup is some kind of difugilty with the Token Ring
card (I never did get it to work with Red Hat 4.2). A few lines earlier on the
boot process, I got messages indicating that the tr0 device was found, but I
never received any message indicating that the adapter had been opened
successfully. I'd really like to get the TR support to work, because that's
what we use here at work, and I'd like to be able to use Linux to connect to
the LAN. I know I have all the IP stuff set up correctly, because I had our
telecomm guru on the line while I was filling in the blanks.
Can anyone shed some light on my somewhat dimly-lit world regarding these two
issues.
All help will be greatly rewarded with virtual beer.
Thanks,
Mike Harmon
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