[Herefordshire] looping boot

[Gordon Alabaster]

Hi Julian,

As suggested I tried to set up LILO and thought I had a dodgy MBR, so used
FIXMBR to repair. Then I found LILO did not like my lilo.conf entries and
after reading everything about LILO I could find, I was soon able to boot
Fedora and XP. A bit more ferreting about and in /etc/fstab and I can now
boot all three systems with LILO.

I may revisit GRUB at a later date as I hate an unsolved problem.

I saw your advice about how to retain /home and this is my next problem. I
tried to use the same user name on the same /home partition for both
Mandrake and Fedora but neither now like this user, ho, hum.

Many thanks for your help.

Gordon.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gordon Alabaster" <herelug at centaurus.demon.co.uk>
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] looping boot


> Hi Julian,
>
> I had LILO as the boot loader when I just had XP and Mandrake, and this
> worked. I could try putting LILO back again, good suggestion as I can then
> see if it is my configuration in some way.
>
> I love KNOPPIX and I used it to get my floppy boot disk going. All drives
> seem to mount OK for Knoppix. I shall look
> up fsck and see what it can tell me.
>
> Thanks
>
> Gordon
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Julian Robbins" <joolsr at fastmail.fm>
> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 12:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] looping boot
>
>
>> Gordon Alabaster wrote:
>>
>>> I have installed Fedora Core 3 from a DVD that came with the Red Hat
>>> Fedora Linux 3 Bible, on a second hard drive, along with Windows XP on
>>> the first drive and Mandrake 10.1 on the second hard drive. The install
>>> seemed to go fine but the boot just keeps getting to load Grub stage 1.5
>>> (I think) and then it starts the boot process again, looping forever. I
>>> have a floppy with Grub on that I made earlier and I can boot from that
>>> into any of the systems.
>>>
>>> I have played around with the grub.confg file and have a duplicate on
>>> the
>>> floppy, so I do not think it is getting to reference that.
>>>
>>> I have tried to reinstall Grub on the MBR on the main hard disk, twice,
>>> but the looping continues.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any ideas?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Gordon.
>>
>>
>> Hi Gordon
>>
>> I'm afraid I cant help. It sounds quite an odd one. You could try another
>> way of doing it by installing LILO instead and seeing if its the same.
>>
>> Is your hard disk ok? Sometimes linux is more picky about disks than
>> Windows if there are problems with it. Linux is usually right and doesnt
>> gloss over the issue as Windows may.
>>
>> Also try booting with Knoppix to check you can mount your drive(s) ok.
>> and
>> run a fsck (filesystem check) on them.
>>
>> Anyone else any ideas ?
>>
>> Julian
>>
>>
>>
>>
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