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  • From: Donald White <gmcsph AT sympatico.ca>
  • To: Spinix Bug List <spinix-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Spinix-bugs] Re: boot problems
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:52:04 -0400



Donald White wrote:

> Hi Joseph,
> No I have NOT installed it yet,the LI was when I tried to install from
> the CD.
> I'm not worried about booting,because I have 30 Linux installed
> and boot them with Loadlin,anywhere on the drive.
> I would like to try Your Linux,but when I saw it was going to Format
> The whole Drive,that would be a lot of work installing the others.
> I think I got to number 4 on the install menu.
> Any help would be welcome
> Donald
>
> Joseph Spainhour wrote:
>
> > Donald,
> >
> > Have you actually installed the system yet? If you have, and you are
> > having the LI problem, the boot from floppy and the following commands
> >
> > mount /dev/hda12 /mnt
> > lilo -r /mnt
> > umount /mnt
> > reboot
> >
> > that should take care of that.
> >
> > The only real problem I can see for you to install on hda12 is that the
> > kernel needs to reside on the first 1024 cylinders of the drive. I am
> > not sure if your partition map is laid out that way or not. Why so many
> > partitions?
> >
> > Joseph
> >
> > Donald White wrote:
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Boot Problems
> > Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:41:10 -0400
> > From: Donald White <gmcsph AT sympatico.ca>
> > To: spinix-bugs AT ibiblio.org
> >
> > Hi,
> > I burned the CD,started it and it jams at LI
> > Created Boot and Root Floppys
> > It Booted to the menu.
> > I Followed up to the point of Formatting drive.
> > I Have 18 Partitions on this hard Drive,and wanted
> > To overwrite Partition /dev/hda12
> > But what it wanted to do was Format Drive Hda
> > and Install it on a Clean Drive.
> > Is There a way to install it to /dev/hda12?
> > That is what I selected ,when asked where to install.
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Donald White
> >
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