RE: Re: [vox-tech] Trouble booting kernel =)

["Deja User" <unix_admin@mMAPSy-deja.com>]

Put in the Windows start-up disk (you did make one, didn't you?). It should boot into 
Windows. Also, sometimes installing Windows from a command prompt (after booting to a 
startup disk, with CDROM support, then pointing to your CDROM drive, run install.exe) 
will re-install Windows on top of itself, however you may lose Linux this way. I 
advocate investing the money in a removeable hard drive and putting Linux on a 
separate disk. Much less trouble in the long run... Good luck.

>Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:17:27 -0700
>From: Brad Benedict <bradb@afes.com>
>To: vox-tech@franz.mother.com
>Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Trouble booting kernel =)
>Reply-To: vox-tech@franz.mother.com
>
>Brad Benedict wrote:
>> 
>> I'm running Mandrake 7.2.
>> 
>> /etc/fstab:
>> 
>> [root@brad brad]# cat /etc/fstab
>> /dev/hdb8 / ext2 defaults 1 1
>> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
>> /dev/hdb7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
>> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
>> /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0
>> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
>> /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
>> /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
>> /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_d vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
>> /dev/hdb3 /mnt/win_e vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
>> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
>> /dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0
>> 
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> results of rdev:
>> 
>> [root@brad /boot]# rdev vmlin
>> vmlinuz               vmlinuz-2.2.17-21mdk  vmlinuz-2.4.3
>> [root@brad /boot]# rdev vmlinuz-2.4.3
>> Root device /dev/hdb8
>> [root@brad /boot]# rdev vmlinuz-2.2.17-21mdk
>> Root device /dev/hdb8
>> [root@brad /boot]# rdev
>> /dev/hdb8 /
>> -------------------------------------
>> 
>> Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>> >
>> > brad, a few observations:
>> >
>> > * your lilo.conf is very complicated.  lots of fat to trim.  do you really
>> >     need a boot message?  i'm not familiar with menu-scheme.  doesn't appear
>> >     in the howto either.  get rid of it.   you can add it later when things
>> >     work.
>> >
>> > * no need to specify a root device in each local section.  specify it once
>> >    in the global section.   same with vga.
>> >
>> > * you have a many-to-one mapping of images to label.  i'm surprised that lilo
>> >    isn't complaining about this.
>> >
>> > * i'm not aware of any kernel parameters named "failsafe".  how did it get
>> >      into your lilo.conf?  i would get rid of it.
>> >
>> > exactly what distribution are you running?  this is a very strange lilo.conf!
>> >
>> > here is a lilo.conf for an imaginary dualboot system, and represents what i
>> > try to shoot for when i write a lilo.conf.  nice, clean and no caffeine.
>> > never had it, never will:
>> >
>> > # Global
>> > #
>> > install=/boot/boot.b
>> > delay=20
>> > boot=/dev/hda
>> > root=/dev/hdb1
>> > map=/boot/map
>> > vga=normal
>> > compact
>> > read-only
>> > prompt
>> >
>> > # Local
>> > #
>> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3
>> >    label=linux
>> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2
>> >    label=oldlinux
>> > other=/dev/hda1
>> >    table=/dev/hda
>> >    label=win95
>> >
>> > lastly, run rdev on all your kernel images and make sure the output looks
>> > something like
>Gah!  I don't know what happened, but I couldn't boot Linux, OR
>windows.  I reinstalled Linux, and here I am, but I still can't get
>windows working.  It says non-system disk.  Did I kill something?  Not
>that I care about windows, but my dad uses it...
>
>> >
>> > /    /dev/hdb8
>> >
>> > stupid question - your root partition is on the 8th partition of the primary
>> > slave drive, right?
>> >
>> > can you post your /etc/fstab?
>> >
>> > lastly, what are the messages just before you get a "root fs not found"
>> > error?
>> >
>> > pete
>> >
>> 
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>
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