OK! Got it working.
Peter, hope this message finds you clear of the problems that plagued
the both of us last week, in case it didn't, here's what's up.
Your ez-bios software may differ from the ez-drive utility that I am
using... with that
in mind.
1. I decreased the size of the root partition. I had been trying to get
away with
one root large partition about 2.8GB and a swap partition. My working
install
of RHL has a 500MB partition for root, 127MB for swap, and the balance
divided
between /usr and /home. All my other installs have smaller root partitions
as well, but
none of which go beyond cylinder 1024... go figure...
2. Do not install LILO in the MBR, but instead on the boot sector of the
root partition.
Which only makes sense since your ez-bios is in the MBR. LILO will pause at
during
boot up but will continue to load Linux unless you have a bootable dos
partition and
you have things set up differently.
I got tired of failed 5.0 attempts and went back to what I had experienced
success with.
Once I implemented both of these items I was able to get v4.2 to install and
reboot.
Perhaps the smaller root partition would have helped with 5.0. In the last
attempt at installing
5.0 I had still the large root partition, but I did have LILO on the boot
sector of the root
partition. When I restarted I got "invalid OS hit <return> to reboot", just
like all the other
attempts.
Now, I have upgraded the machine to 5.0, it's working just as sweet as all
my other little
re-furbished 486/50s Linux servers. Hope this helps! Feel free to write
back if it doesn't!
Bethg:-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter L. Arnoldy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: March 20, 1998 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Drive/File System Setup
>Beth Gemeny wrote:
>>
>> Once again.
>>
>> I am still beating myself up with this one. I need to get this
>> server running today!
>
>Sorry, Beth, as you can probably tell from my message, I'm not
>going to be of any help. I'm in the same boat as you, and just
>hoping that someone out there has knowledge about this. Since I've
>been asking for awhile, it appears not. Nor have I reached anyone
>knowledgeable on the topic of LILO at redhat support. Does anyone
>have any idea who Beth and I could try asking next?
>
>Someone has told me to do
>fdisk /mbr
>which will remove "that stinking" ez-bios from the master boot record. I
>am
>hesitant to do so, afraid that I will lose my WIN95 partition or not be
>able to boot. I don't understand why ez-bios and LILO cannot both occupy
>the MBR. Nor do I understand why, if this is really the problem, writing
>LILO to floppy then booting from floppy doesn't solve the problem.....
>
>
>-Peter
>(781)438-3087
>
>
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