RE: Sarge with lilo?
Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
> Preston Boyington (<PBoyington@polyengineering.com>) wrote:
>
>> I've been trying off and on to install Sarge onto a Gateway Solo 1150
>> laptop without great success. Each time I would complete the
>> install, the computer would reboot, and the laptop would hang at
>> GRUB's boot loader. Since I know that the installer is still
>> evolving, I didn't think much of it.
>>
>> Well after trying the latest netinst and Official Snapshot cdrom 1
>> today (again without total sucess) I decided to try an older Woody
>> netinst cdrom I had. Long story short it installed very quick and
>> painless. I am wondering now if it was just the difference between
>> LiLo and GRUB.
>>
>> If this is the case how would I go about finding out why GRUB doesn't
>> seem to work?
>
> The Sarge installer (at least the version I used, on DVD)
> allowes you to
> choose between Grub and Lilo. Maybe you have to select expert mode to
> make that choice available.
>
> I am also not sure when exactly your Sarge hang - at the Grub screen,
> or the moment you tried to boot the system from Grub. If the
> latter is the
> case, then it is maybe a kernel problem.
>
> best regards
> Andreas Janssen
>
It happens when Grub starts to boot my system. I see the following:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinz-2.6.8-1-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-1-386
savedefault
boot
after that, nothing.
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