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Re: Redhat install

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From: cdn
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
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