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Article #4Re: Redhat install
From: cdn
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 00:00
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try going into /home and see if you see anything there. this happened to me upon my first terminal login. Christopher "Kevin Huang Y.T." wrote: > Sure, I think my lilo.conf is broken. When I boot up with the boodisk, I > go into the /root, ls, this is not a single file there... help! > K. > > On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Tarkaan wrote: > > > Kevin Huang Y.T. wrote: > > > > > > I'm installing redhat on my AST J50 Laptop. Almost the end of the > > > installation, when I'm going through the step to install lilo, the system > > > returns this message: > > > First sector of /dev/hda5 doesn't have a valid boot signature. > > > > I had a similar issue. Your lilo.conf is broken. Try using /dev/hda2 > > where you would put /dev/hda5 ... > > > > And now I see why it's a bad idea to put linux anywhere in a newsgroup > > name... > > > > -- Jack Tarkaan Kalamazoo, Michigan > > -- http://www.bigfoot.com/~tarkaan mailto:tarkaan@bigfoot.com > > -- NO UNSOLICITED E-MAIL AT THIS ADDRESS - Respect privacy - NO SPAM!!!! > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > "There's only one success - to be able to spend your life > in your own way." > --- Chrsitopher Morley > **************************************************************
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb64c,f1dac5c00373655c X-Google-Attributes: gidfb64c,public X-Google-Thread: f9b51,f1dac5c00373655c X-Google-Attributes: gidf9b51,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,f1dac5c00373655c X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public X-Google-Thread: 10a997,f1dac5c00373655c X-Google-Attributes: gid10a997,public X-Google-Thread: faa64,f1dac5c00373655c X-Google-Attributes: gidfaa64,public X-Google-Thread: 11221a,f1dac5c00373655c X-Google-Attributes: gid11221a,public From: cdn@home.net Subject: Re: Redhat install Date: 1999/07/24 Message-ID: <379A2194.7C20A36C@home.net> X-Deja-AN: 504848699 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <Pine.GSO.4.01.9907171701300.2534-100000@arctic.cse.msu.edu> <37910BDE.118C@bigfoot.com> <Pine.GSO.4.01.9907211735460.530-100000@arctic.cse.msu.edu> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news.rdc2.occa.home.com 932848137 24.1.149.71 (Sat, 24 Jul 1999 13:28:57 PDT) Organization: @Home Network MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 13:28:57 PDT Newsgroups: umich.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,msu.linux.misc,alt.os.linux