RE: Linux Doesnt Install ---plzz help.

[Santosh Pasi <spasi diskonnet com>]

Hi Veena,

If you want to install, simple boot the system with linux cd, at boot 
don't right any thing like "root=/dev/hda!" not needed.
Simple go ahead, you installation will autodetect your harddisk, and 
continue with the installation.
make /boot partition, will save your time ....(will be safe),
while lilo configuration, what ever is default works for most of cases, 

That's it.

Good luck

Regards,
Santosh Pasi




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>Hi...
>
>	Actually i want to re-install.. I had installed intially.. but now
>it is not Booting... It stops at "LI_".
>	So i was trying to re-install(ie boot from the CD) it is Giving me
>kernel panic... As i could figure out thru out the day...it cannot find 
the>root partition.. I dont know why.. 
>
>	What I fail to understand is.. when i boot from the CD .. why does
>it have to check for the existing partitions and not forget all of them 
and>reformat my hard disk.. in which case there should be no Error...
>	
>	Since i had not done custom installation but GUI installation of the
>GNU Workstation.. I donot know what partitions it might have picked up 
then?>
>Veena.
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>Hi Veena,
>What is your exact requirement, you want to  fresh install, upgade, 
>already installed but unable to start system???
>Regards
>Santosh Pasi
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>>Hi.. 
>>	Thanks for ur reply...
>>
>>	But when i boot with
>>
>>	boot: linux root=/dev/hda1
>>
>>	.. it does not give a kernel panic .. but it restarts the system ..
>>	It reaches the point where in i get messages like..
>>	probing for Mouse.. successful
>>		and other Hardware recoginiton and then restarts system?
>>
>>	why does that happen?
>>
>>Veena Gudi
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Santosh Pasi [mailto:spasi diskonnet com]
>>Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:08 PM
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>>Hi Veena Gudi,
>>
>>Start your system with cdrom, at boot:
>>
>>boot: linux root=/dev/hda1
>>
>>If your system will start normally(as per ur mail), login as root
>>
>># vi /etc/lilo.conf
>>
>>
>>make sure in case following entries are proper
>>
>>boot=/dev/hda    ==> 
>>
>>then in image section for linux
>>you will find something like this
>>
>>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-12  ==> no. may be different
>>        label=linux
>>        read-only
>>        root=/dev/hda1  ==> is important
>>
>>finally save file
>>
>>and run following command
>># lilo -v
>>
>>then try to boot with harddisk,
>>your system should start normally
>>
>>Good Luck
>>
>>Regards,
>>Santosh Pasi
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>>> Hi guys...
>>>> 
>>>> 	I these questions might sound very naive... But plzz help.. I am
>>>> stuck up with my installation..
>>>> 	Plz have the patience to go thru my story...
>>>> 
>>>> 	1. I had installed RedHat Linux 6.1 GNUWorkstaion on my secondary
>>>> master hard disk of my machine.. It got installed properly on hdc 
>>drive..>> 	2. Next day i tried to boot my system.. it gave me a kernel
>>panic
>>>> error with some stack dump.. So i decided re-install by booting 
from >>my>> CDRom.. it gave kernel 		panic again?
>>>> 	3. . Then i made my hard disk my primary master... and i Booted my
>>>> system with the Linux installed harddisk as my Primary master (hda) 
>> It>> gave "LI" and 		stopped.
>>>> 	4 I tried installing on hda using my CDRom... it gave me a kernel
>>>> panic error with some stack dump..
>>>> 	5. I tried installing in expert mode with the command "linux
>>>> root=/dev/hda1". it booted... started recognising my hardware 
config >>and>> then suddenly restarted the computer!!!!... and installing it 
>with >"linux>> root=/dev/hda2" , "linux root=/dev/hda3"  gives me a 
kernel >panic.>>> 	
>>>> 	
>>>> 	I dont understand what happened.. I am really stuck.. why cannot i
>>>> reformat my HDD using the Installation CD.. why is that giving 
>>problems..>> 	Is any thing gone wrong with my hard ware config.. I dont
>>>> understand.. I suppose i have tried all the possible combinations i 
>>could>> think of... But it doesnt work..
>>>> 	Plzz plzz help
>>>> 	
>>>> 	
>>>> 	
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Veena S Gudi
>>>> Software Engineer
>>>> Xoriant Solutions
>>>> 
>>>> Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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