Re: REDHAT, LILO, MBR INSTALL Problem

["Andrew Austen" <andrewa hotmail com>]

>Greetings,
>I'm really sorry for posting this - I have trawled the archives and the
>FAQ, and seen loads of LILO install questions, but none seem to mention
>this specifically...
>I'm trying to install REDHAT 4.1 one of my PC's. The PC is IBM 200+
>(pentium) on an ABIT SM5 MB (softmenu) with a 3.1gig EIDE Maxtor drive,
>32mg RAM, Matrox Millenium.
>I'm aware of the LBA/Cylinders issue and the drive is set to LBA.
>Initially I installed REDHAT into it's own partition but kept the
>primary that Memphis was installed on. When it tried to write the LILO
>it failed. It wouldn't write to the MBR, or the LINUX partition, or a
>floppy.
><later I learnt this was bound to fail due to the LBA issue - fine
>that's why I'm installing it - to learn>
>A lot of partition shuffling later (partition magic) I tried again with
>the unix system partition within the first 500mb of the drive, but 
still
>with a primary memphis partition. Failed with the same problem.
>
>Fine - so last night I completely repartitioned my disk with FDISK
>inside the REDHAT install, and created only one partition within the
>first 250 mb of the start of the drive which was soley for REDHAT (bye
>bye Memphis), set it to active, and a linux swap partition in the next
>50 mb, rebooted and continued the install.
>Failed at the same point again. Hmmmm.
>So I then rebooted, type  "rescue" and when asked put in the support
>disk. The machine will then appear to boot into REDHAT and comes up 
with
>the # prompt when an LS shows the kind of directory structure I would
>expect from a UNIX box.
>I really would appreciate any help, I've heard of this product LOADLIN
>and had a brief look at it yesterday before I killed my MEMPHIS
>partition but I would prefer not to use it.
>Thanks
>Ed

Heya...
Im new at linux and wanna be a part of all this.
I'm sorta having the same problem as you, ive been through all the
help stuff as you have, but still cant find a way around this.
I have kinda established that the problem is due to something
called mkinitrd..? is missing after the installation process
when it goes to write the mbr.
The error is (correct me) could not open /mnt//sbin/mkinitrd.
I dont know if you have the same problem, but I get all sorts of
errors about the comps file. I've tried downloading this in
binary and ascii mode, (im installing from hd, downloaded from mirror)
and im gettin different msg's each time.
I know heaps of people who have posted their problems, specifically
relating to this issue... but to no avail.
Nothing written in the howto's/faq/docs/manuals explain it.
Im just hoping someone who got round it will speak up :)

Andrew


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