[Herts] Newbie with Boot Hassle - Can anyone help?

[Geoff Pitt]

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Hi Dom

Thanks for your interest/advice. Post exact details here?  Hope it's OK =
to reply off list and don't want to clutter inboxes uninvited as I'm not =
sure of the type of content to expect as I've not yet seen any! SYMBOL =
74 \f "Wingdings" \s 12. =20

RAID is based on Promise PDC20276 chip on my MOBO and consists of two =
Maxtor ATA 133 HDDs as RAID0 striped.  But I've had two responses =
(accidentally sent the same message when swapping drives etc. in =
frustration) the from SuSE support saying they won't support it (they =
may think I'm running a commercial server?) however the distro claims to =
be "Professional"  they did however give some tips when replying.  One =
of which was that GRUB wouldn't work 'cos I'd seen about it in their =
literature and asked the question with my support request.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Dominic Hargreaves [SMTP:dom@earth.li]
Sent:	28 January 2003 19:51
To:	herts@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject:	Re: [Herts] Newbie with Boot Hassle - Can anyone help?

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:27:50PM -0000, Geoff Pitt wrote:

> Just to make life awkward for myself I'm trying to set it up on a =
newly
> acquired RAID array and use Win98 at the same time.  I've been in =
touch with
> SuSE support however they don't support RAID without extra payment.  =
My
> situation is as follows:

What sort of RAID setup is it - a completely hardware-based solution? If =
so,
SuSE have no business not supporting it as to the OS it's just another =
disk.
If it's software-based, more information on what sort of configuration =
is
being used is required.

> I've split my array into two equal partitions the first I've made =
active DOS FAT32
> and installed Win98 and then booted the SuSE installation disk which =
has
> identified the blank partition and installed OK.  I can access the OS
> booting from the installation CD and have tried to use YaST to save =
LILO in
> various locations (boot, root, floppy..) however, wherever I try to =
boot it
> to it gives the same error:
>=20
> LI 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 ...........etc for several lines
>=20
> Then hangs.
>=20
> I've tried a third party boot manager (MasterBooter) to no avail - is =
there
> a better solution?  I've just re-installed Win98 to get the boot =
partition
> back and access email etc.

I would recommend grub as it has worked for me in obscure situations =
where
LILO has failed. It also has the advantage of not needing you to =
reinstall
it when you add a kernel, and provides a powerful command-line interface =
on
the boot loader (in common with those seen on Real Computers :)

Look for grub and its documentation in your distribution -- if it =
doesn't
exist there, its home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ and =
contains
comprehensive documentation. If you still run into trouble, post exact
details here.

As always, keep a windows and linux boot disk handy.

Cheers,

Dom.

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