RE: Help: lilo wasn't able to install...
Nope... Complete failure. :( Even with the rescue option set to my root
(/dev/sda1) Debian fails to install or install Lilo. I have previously
installed RedHat 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, Mandrake 7.0, 8.0, and Windows 2000 on
this system so that leaves me to believe...
...Debian 2.2 r3 is defective.
I've worked on this for almost two days now and nothing. I'm just about to
give up, reformat the hard drive and go back to RedHat 7.1.
/*Raj*/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Heldebrant [mailto:hmike@portalofevil.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 2:21 PM
> To: Raj Wurttemberg
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Help: lilo wasn't able to install...
>
>
> On 16 Aug 2001 09:33:18 -0400, Raj Wurttemberg wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been trying to get Debian 2.2 r3 to install all
> night and have not
> > had any luck. I made it all the way to the point where
> Debian is supposed to
> > make itself bootable off of the hard drive. Every time it
> fails saying "lilo
> > wasn't able to install...". It even failed when trying to
> make the boot
> > floppy. I tried several blank formatted and unformatted
> floppies too.
>
> Hmmm. I would get the system installed and at the point it
> wants to try
> and make the hardisk bootable just boot off the rescue disk
> and then use
> the rescue options to set your root partition to the appropriate scsi
> drive. That should allow you to complete the installation
> and possibly
> get a different lilo or syslinux installed to make the boot partition
> bootable. I'd also make sure that lilo is trying to use linear (only
> since lba32 has never worked on my old hardware).
>
> --mike
>
>
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