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Stray Dog Joined: 12 Apr 2001 Posts: 6 Location: USA

I have gone through your instructions, and I am encountering a similar problem to the one that many on this forum have encountered. I have the following setup:

Dell Dimension 8100
Pentium 4, 1.5 Ghz
1st primary partition (25 gigs), Windows 2000 Professional
2nd primary partition (9.9 gigs), Mandrake 7.2
1st extended partition (100 mb), Linux swap

I installed Windows and Linux, and went through everything in your article. When I boot, the NT Loader prompts me and I select Mandrake 7.2. Lilo comes up and prompts me again. I select "linux" and then my screen goes blank. I believe it's because my primary partition for Linux is past the 1024 cylinder. I have the lba32 in my lilo.conf file, but this still happens.

Below is my lilo.conf file - could it be that there are references to "/boot" which doesn't exist? Starting up with the boot disk works fine.

Thanks,

Matt

boot=/dev/hda2
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=30
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp
label=linux
root=/dev/hda2
append=" hdc=ide-scsi"
vga=normal
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux-up
root=/dev/hda2
append=" hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hda2
append=" hdc=ide-scsi failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe

Stray Dog Joined: 12 Apr 2001 Posts: 6 Location: USA

I think I posted the wrong lilo.conf - here is an updated one. I added lba32 and now I don't get the same error when I run /sbin/lilo. However, I get a new error:

[root@raible2 /etc]# /sbin/lilo
Added linux *
Added linux-up
Added failsafe
Added windows
Fatal: open /dev/fd0: Device not configured

lilo.conf ---------------------------------
#This file has been generated by KLILO
boot=/dev/hda2
read-only
lba32
prompt
timeout=30
vga=normal

image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp
root=/dev/hda2
label=linux
append=" hdc=ide-scsi"

image=/boot/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hda2
label=linux-up
append=" hdc=ide-scsi"

image=/boot/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hda2
label=failsafe
append=" hdc=ide-scsi failsafe"

other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda

other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
table=/dev/hda

------------------------------

WOW - now it works, sweet! But I would like to get rid of the error with the floppy, any ideas? Also - it is possible to get rid of the blue lilo screen? Do I just get rid of "prompt" in the lilo.conf file?

I would also like to install Solaris 8 and have it boot in a similar fashion - any ideas/articles on this?

Thanks for all your help - you've alleviated many hours of frustration!

Matt

Stray Dog Joined: 12 Apr 2001 Posts: 6 Location: USA

OK - it's not working, I just got past the blank screen so I thought it was working. Now it still gives me lilo blue menu, and when I select "linux", I get a bunch of text and it stops processing:

enabling symmetric IO mode... ...Done.
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
no explicit IRQ entries, using default mptable
Unable to handel kernel paging request at virtual address ffffd000

...bunch of other stack trace stuff (will send if necessary)

Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task
in swapper task - not syncing!

Any ideas?

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2001 7:14 am Post subject:

It could be an issue with both the P4 and the new chipset for it. I am pretty sure that Mandrake7.2 doesn't support either of those two pieces of hardware. You might try Mandrake 8.0 beta 2 but who konws.

Rover

Toilet bowls...the chalice of dogs everywhere.

Stray Dog Joined: 12 Apr 2001 Posts: 6 Location: USA

I can boot up from a floppy just fine though - so I don't think it's a hardware issue. I've also talked to other folks that have bought the same machine and they have Mandrake 7.2 running on it just fine - I think it's something in my lilo.conf file - any ideas?

Matt