RE: Two Questions
Maybe I can help with the boot problem. Debian doesn't use LILO
as a MBR boot manager. They use a program known just as MBR. (At
least this is true for the bo release, is it true for hamm?) I'm
not quite sure why LILO isn't used as the MBR boot manager, because
it appears to be superior to MBR in many ways. Anyway, LILO,
when installed as an MBR boot manager can boot Linux on a second
drive, the MBR program can't. If you want to install LILO as MBR
you can do what I did. Just make a boot floppy. Use it to start
Linux and then configure LILO to be installed as MBR.
It sounds as if you'd rather start Linux through the NT Loader
(a boot sector loader instead of an MBR loader). To do this make a
LILO config file that installs LILO as a boot sector loader on your
Linux partition. Then copy the boot sector
(dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1) to your NT Loader
partition and modify your boot.ini file or use bootpart to do all
of this for you. Everytime you install
a new kernel you will need to re-run LILO and copy the boot sector
to the NT partition.
Sorry I can't help with the more serious boot failure problem.
Good luck,
Tony Richardson
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Harmon [SMTP:harmom@mail.modot.state.mo.us]
Sent: Monday, July 13, 1998 2:44 PM
To: debian-user
Subject: 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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