Description of Problem: P233, 2 9G seagates, Tekram SCSI. Standard RH install (text mode) from ISO image Configure drives with 16M, 8537M, 128M partitions, type 83, fd, 82. Combine sda2 & sdb2 into md0 and mount as /. Mount sda1 as /boot0 and sdb1 as /boot1. Complete install and reboot. System does not recognise installed lilo, ie no LILO prompt or RH graphic. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How Reproducible: I have not tried. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: System failed to boot. Expected Results: Boot to X login Additional Information:
Did you install the bootloader to the MBR or the boot partition? Did you select LILO or GRUB? Did you previously have a Linux installation; if so, did you install the bootloader to the same location?
I installed LILO and I wasn't asked where I wanted to store the boot record. It appears that the partition was selected (/dev/md0). It is likely that there was no boot record on /dev/sda which caused the problem. Both drives were virgin, low level formatted drives.
In this situation, you should have gotten something like the following on the boot loader screen (excuse my bad ascii art :) o Use GRUB * Use LILO o No boot loader Install bootloader to * /dev/sda MBR o /dev/sda1 First sector of boot partition And then some other stuff that's less important. If you installed to /dev/sda1 instead of /dev/sda and the drive didn't have the usual DOS bootloader magic to boot the active partition, then it obviously won't boot. The default is /dev/sda, which assuming your BIOS is properly booting from the SCSI hard drive should work. Assuming you have no IDE drives on this system in addition to the SCSI ones mentioned, of course.
Closing due to inactivity, please reopen if you contine to have problems.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.