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Re: Linux won't install on Digital Venturis
Hi!
I'd like to help. Some questions:
1. Is LILO installed on the MBR? If not, use DOS's fdisk to set the Linux
partition to be the active one.
2. If LILO is in the MBR and this doesn't work, try FDISK/MBR to restore DOS's
MBR, and try to boot using LOADLIN instead of LILO...
You can also first try to boot from the installation boot-floppy (which I
understand DOES work), and in the LILO prompt of the installation boot-floppy,
type "mount root=/dev/<your_boot_partition>".
If this works, make yourself a boot floppy like this:
dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0
It will be a bootable, non-LILO bootdisk.
*** Make sure that the "Fixed disk boot sector" is NOT set to "Write Protect"!
I work for DEC, and I don't know about anything in the Venturis's BIOS or
hardware that could be damaging the boot process, but I am not an expert on
Venturis.
Amit