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Article #2960Re: Please Help! Can't get Caldera OL2.2 to boot!
From: The Kusinski's
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 00:00
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I had the same problem when I was installing OL 2.2 on my system. I tried about 5 different boot managers before I found one that worked - try "BootIt Direct" (Make sure you use the "Direct" version and not the "2.25" version. Scott J wrote: > 1. You need to install Lilo in the master boot partition. > 2. Use a boot floppy (You made on right? If not, see step #5.) to start > yourself into linux. > 3. You are going to have to edit the lilo.conf file (I believe that it is > located in /boot or /etc) > 4. After you have made the neccessary entries into the lilo.conf (boot > information for both operating > systems, see the Caldera web site for specific line entries or better > yet buy a Linux book), type /sbin/lilo > which should set you straight. > 5. Barring that, scrap Caldera, get RedHat 6.0 (With that shiny new Linux > Unleashed book you're gonna buy) > and run the install CD that will have you up and running in an hour or > so. > > Kem wrote in message ... > >Hi, > >I have installed Caldera Linux 2.2 at least 30-40 some odd times now from a > >CD I purchased from linuxmall, and everything seems to work okay at > first........ > > > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11033e,4437ae8594938026 X-Google-Attributes: gid11033e,public From: The Kusinski's <kusinski@alaska.net> Subject: Re: Please Help! Can't get Caldera OL2.2 to boot! Date: 1999/09/20 Message-ID: <37E6CDF1.51EF3C5F@alaska.net> X-Deja-AN: 527645753 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <rs6btbj6dmc59@corp.supernews.com> <wdHw3.4$Nm.994@news.goodnet.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: ahn.tech.linux