Bug 59518
| Summary: | At beginning of Linux install, crashed and disabled laptop from further boots | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Hal Harrison <halh> | ||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> | ||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 7.1 | ||||||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2002-03-13 23:31:00 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Hal Harrison
2002-02-09 03:53:24 UTC
Created attachment 45040 [details]
error log captured on isys.umount failure
If you do not mount the DOS partition during the install process does it work better? My goal is dual boot with Win2000 and am told by work mates that I should install Win first (which I did last year on another machine without this kind of problem). My attempt to install again from the Red Hat CD was thwarted as follows. It appears the isys.unmount() failure corrupted the master boot record of my virgin hard drive so that it would not return a proper "boot failure" error to POST. Before starting with Linux an attempt to boot produced a short "No OS" message. Also, at first, the laptop booted from RedHat CD 1. After the corruption, an attempt to boot from hard drive produced only a blank screen and the CD would not boot. My fincal solution was to reconfigure the machine's boot sequence, putting CD before harddrive. But my second Linux install attempt ended directly after the "Welcome to Red Hat" screen with an error like "...logical partition type 0 detected...which condition is not supported by the anaconda installer...use your other operating system to set it correctly" what ever "correctly" means. I don't know if that's a result of the isys.umount() failure or of my using Partition Magic 6.0 before I reconfigured the boot sequence. P Magic first showed a C: of 250 something Meg, Active FAT. I removed it. Boot still wouldn't pass hard drive. But than P Magic said it was still there. So I activated it and formatted it. Still no boot. Then I reconfigured the boot sequence as already stated. In a few days I will start with Win to see if he will straighten out the partitions and then install Linux second. halh, have you made any progress with this issue? March 13 Yesterday, after several trials, I completed my intended install of Dos, Win2000, and RH Linux 7.1 on my laptop 390X. By forgoing the Dos partition, as you suggeseted, I had no further occurances of the original isys.umount()-umount problem. My problem with disabled boot arose from my inattention to whether Lilo wrote his boot record to MBR or another partition. However, there may also be a problem in the RH 7.1 install. Even after choosing "boot partition" instead of MRB, your etc/lilo.conf had "boot=/dev/hda". When I ran Lilo with "boot=/dev/hda8" and some other changes, then Linux booting worked as desired in conjunction with Boot Magic, 6.0. I also had to repair your etc/fstab. For / and /home it had picked up the volumn labels I assigned with Partition Magic instead of /dev/hda8 and /dev/hda7. I don't know Linux that well yet, but I'm sure the better it cooperates with Windows now, the quicker we will be free of Windows in the long run. Although I don't remember any problems with the boot loader things in 7.1, I have tested that it works properly in current releases. |