Re: Troubleshooting My PPP
Lane Lester wrote:
>
> How embarrassing! My PPP problems had nothing to do with PPP! They were
> caused by my ignorant use of lilo in booting my three Linux
> distributions. I'm not sure exactly what was going on, but I was having
> a kernel running a filesystem for which it was not designed.
Probably *not* the filesystem.
Maybe one kernel wanted to have ppp as a module and the other(s) had it
compiled in? Just a guess.
>
> After I edited lilo.conf correctly, I was able to get online with
> Mandrake immediately. The holdup with Debian is that lilo told me that
> Debian's boot partition was beyond cylinder 1024! I think I have some
> space closer to the beginning that I can use instead for the boot
> partition. My thought is to create the partition with Partition Magic
> (which I feel comfortable using), copy the contents of the present boot
> partition to the new one, and then edit lilo.conf to reflect the change.
>
> Does the above sound workable? How large does the boot partition need to
> be to hold things?
> --
In the other thread, "Can Separate Partitions Interfere?", I think aphro
had the solution to your problem: just have one boot partition that has
all the kernels you need to be able to boot off of, with lilo.confs that
point to them all. Eventually, it would be nice to just have one kernel
for all the distributions, since it's all Linux. But then, eventually
you'll want to settle on one distro (Debian!).
If you really wanted to get cute, maybe you could have just one
lilo.conf: symlink /etc/lilo.conf to point to /boot/lilo.conf. Does
anyone else do this, or are there problems with this I haven't thought
out?
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