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---- Any Linux experts??????

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/me cries. 🙁

I have been trying to get red hat 6.2 installed for 43 hours. I was up until 4 am last night trying to get it to work. I have spent all day today trying to fix it. I have another thread in General Hardware about it.

Is there anyone who is a linux expert here? Shuxclams? Can someone ICQ me at 62000445 ?

Allow me to summarize:

I used PM(Partition Magic) to make a Linux Ext 2 partition and a Swap partition.

I installed Red Hat 6.2 from the CD with no problems.

I rebooted. It brought me to a screen that said "LI" instead of the LILO one. It froze.

I came here. Someone suggested that I had installed LILO to a partition that was past the 8 gig mark on my hard drive.

I do fdisk /mbr to clear the master boot record.

I use a boot disk to make the primary partition active and get into windows.

I use BM(Boot Magic) to replace LILO. It lets me select the OSes I want to use. Linux is not listed. I go to advanced mode, and my Ext 2 partition there is listed as "Unknown." I add it anyways.

Reboot. BM loads. I choose to boot to Linux. It freezes.

I go back to windows and disable BM. I reboot and fool around with the installation CD again. It said it would write LILO to the MBR this time. I make a boot floppy too.

I reboot with the boot floppy. It starts to load! Eureka! Damn-- It freezes at the message:
<<<
Kernel panic- Attempt to kill idle task!
In swapper task - not syncing.
>>>

I reboot, remove floppy. It boots into windows normally.

I found something about adding a line to /etc/linux.conf. So I boot into rescue mode on the Linux CD. This file doesn't exist.

I come here. I cry. I write a long rambling post... oh... sorry...
I have tried everything! someone help me! now! ...please? 🙂 🙁

 
Is the HDD that you are installing to more than 36GB? If so, the kernel that comes with that version of RedHat will have some problems.

See if you can get some updated boot floppy images from one of the RedHat mirrors.

-nut
 
Such difficulties are the reason why I gave up installing redhat as well. Too many damn hardware conflicts and I was not ready to go and buy new hardware to make it work! Goodluck tho...
 
no, it is only 15. it is the system in my sig.
and what would be different with updated boot floppies?
 
Oh the many things it could be, do this.

Keep boot magic loaded. Reinstall Redhat 6.2 and when it asks to install LILO, tell it to install it in the Linux partition, not the MBR.

And it appears you didn't understand someone elses comment. Regardless of the lilo problem, the kernel will NOT boot if it is anywhere above the 1024th cylindar (approx 8.4gig mark). You should verify that the linux partition you created is below the 8.4gig mark in partition magic, and if it isn't you should MOVE it, or it won't work. Oh and to prevent problems, you are best off having that swap partition less than 128megs.
 
really? does it have to END before the 8.4 gig mark???
should it be before my windows partition? and why should the swap be < 128? I read it should be at least equal to the amount of RAM you have... ?
 
Nope, it just has to start before that mark. It doesn't really matter where your windows partition is, just as long as the linux partition starts before the 1024 cylinder.

Do what rahvin says, then post the results.
 
Rahvin is exactly right, if you install lilo to that partition instead of the mbr boot magic will load it just fine. It took me a bit to figure it out the first time too 🙂
 
I think I originally tried to install it to the linux partition though... also, if I do reformat and try again, how do you reccommend that I partition it? I want to do it beforehand in partition magic... should I just do it the way I have it, one ext 2 partition and one swap?
 
Ok, the easy solution is to split the ext2 partition into two pieces when you reinstall Redhat. Because your partition starts below the 8gig mark, just make a 50mb ext2 partition that starts AND ends before the 1024th cylindar. Now this is important, the hard limit for 1024th cylindar is a mystery to me (it not 8.4gig exactly) so just make sure it's below the 8gig mark (and you won't have trouble).

Now after you have created a 50meg ext2 partition below the 8gig mark, another ext2 partiton that encompasses the rest of your allocated space, and a swap partition, install Redhat. Now here is the key, when you assign mount points to the partitions, assign &quot;/boot&quot; (minus &quot;'s) to the 50meg partition. This will keep your kernel below the 1024th cylindar. Now, if you have problems after you do the things I've mentioned in this thread let me know.
 
use the format utility that is on the linux cd. its under dosutils i think. make sure you have defraged your harddrive and then immediatly use fips. It worked good for me. make sure the partition starts above the 1024th cyclinder like stated (fips tells you at what cyclindar it splits it at) and make it for the rest of the drive. then if you want another partition for windows just use fips agian on that partion. but no gaurantees using fips, i've heard some horror stories.
 
I had no problem installing redhat 7.0 the other day. everything went smooth as silk.







Until I rebooted and everything is in freakin' Japanese.
Dammit, I must of dl a jap version of Redhat 7.0.

Sonavabitch
 
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