Bug 7196

Summary:	Updated bootnet image doesn't boot.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	osman
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Jay Turner <jturner>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	srevivo
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Description osman 1999-11-21 09:59:22 UTC

I have used the updated bootnet.img the one in the updates tree...
It works great until I reboot the machine to bootup on its own.
It stops at the LILO promt at "LI"
I use only SCSI with a 3C900(PCI-Vortex) card.
I think the process doesn't run LILO properly...

Comment 1 Jay Turner 1999-11-22 18:18:59 UTC

Where did you install lilo (mbr or first sector of the boot partition?)  Also,
if there was once a mbr lilo installed, but you are now running lilo from the
first sector of the boot partition, then the system might be seeing the
installation in mbr and failing from this.  If you believe this to be the case,
then you might want to do one of two things.  1) install lilo back into the mbr
or 2) remove lilo from the mbr, leaving it on the first sector of the boot
partition (using the lilo -u parameter)

Comment 2 osman 1999-11-22 20:16:59 UTC

I didn't get any option where to install the lilo...
I used the option to install the GNOME veraion from the menu.
As I used DHCP+NFS to install and can't boot that linux machine, I can't solve
this lilo problem.
A new install should work without corrections of this type anyway...

Comment 3 Jay Turner 1999-11-29 17:10:59 UTC

Boot the machine into rescue mode and send me a copy of your /etc/lilo.conf file
as well as your /etc/fstab

To boot into rescue mode, you are going to need to boot from the diskette with
"linux rescue" at the boot prompt.  You will proceed just as you did with the
installation, telling the installer where the source files are, and then you
will get dumped at a shell prompt.

Make a directory somewhere so that you can use it as a mount point (so "mkdir
/mnt/tmp" will do) and then mount your root partition on it (so "mount
/dev/<root partition> /mnt/tmp")

You will then be able to cd to /mnt/tmp and get access to your root partition.
I am thinking that for some reason, the GNOME Workstation installation is not
acting as it should with respect to your SCSI drive system.

Another option is that you can just perform a custom installation, selecting to
install GNOME and then you will be able to specify the location at which lilo
get installed.  This should help out alot, as I am thinking that for some
reason, lilo is getting written to the first sector of the root partition as
opposed to the MBR of the drive and this is causing the problem you are seeing.

Comment 4 Jay Turner 2000-02-09 13:39:59 UTC

Closing out bug due to lack of activity.