Hi Eric and all,
>From previous experience of booting Linux on the HPT366 I was aware that
neither of Keith's welcome suggestions were necessary.
What I did was:
Had another go at reinstalling the OS, following the installation
instructions for the original Redhat 7 disks to the letter.
But it still wouldn't boot.
Played with a number of settings. Then remembered to add "lba32" to
lilo.conf.
Decided to let linux take control of the MBR instead of just the partition
(Linux is now my boot manager).
And it worked! Kernel 2.4.0-SGI_XFS_PRsmp on a 2-processor i686.
So thanks for all your persistence. I'm so glad I got it to work.
A documentation suggestion for your rescue procedure. You state:
mount hda<part#> /mnt/A
mount hda<part#> /mnt/A/boot
Ideally this should be:
mount -t xfs /dev/hda<part#> /mnt/A
mount -t xfs /dev/hda<part#> /mnt/A/boot
Regards,
Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Eric Sandeen
Sent: Friday, 2 February 2001 4:17 a.m.
To: Adam Warner
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: xfs installer (SGI Pre-Release ISO)
Adam Warner wrote:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Well I gave it my best shot--twice.
>
> The advice was really helpful. In this end this is how I distilled the
> commands:
>
> cd /tmp
> mknod hde1 (b 3 didn't work because I had to provide a major AND minor
> number)
> mount -t xfs /mnt/A
> chroot /mnt/A
Oh, I'm sorry... there was a typo on our help page, and I was reading
from it on autopilot... should be:
cd /tmp
mknod hda<partition # of root fs> b 3 <partition #> (i.e. mknod hda1 b 3
1)
mknod hda<partition # of /boot fs> b 3 <partition #> (if you have /boot)
mount hda<part#> /mnt/A
mount hda<part#> /mnt/A/boot
chroot /mnt/A
(that's checked in for the web page now).
I'll bet that one of Keith's suggestions fixes your problem - you have
to tell Lilo where to look for the drive in your system.
-Eric
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