RE: RedHat Woes

[Kelly_Mismash@example.com]

I had the same problem with LILO on a laptop that I was using at the last
company I worked for. There is something funky about lilo, but I never took
the time to try to figure it out. I found that if I hit the "Esc" key when
it displayed LI that I would get the whole LILO prompt and then I could
choose which kernel/OS I wanted to boot up into. However, even if I did not
hit the "Esc" key lilo would eventually boot up into the default kernel/OS
that I had configure in the lilo conf file. If it simply just hangs on you
and never boots then you obviously have a different and/or additional
problems that I did not. Of course this does not explain your partition
issue which I have no advice to offer.

	kelly

-----Original Message-----
From: shawn [mailto:shawn@example.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 1:57 PM
To: tlug@example.com
Subject: RedHat Woes


Hi all,

I've run myself into a little problem and was hoping someone might have some
advice.

It started when I recompiled the kernel to configure module support. I
followed the kernel HOW-TO, and had no problems, including running bzlilo at
the end.

When I rebooted however, the startup stalled at LI
where there is usually LILO. I booted with a boot/rescue disk, and got
kernel panic, same thing when I used TomsRootBoot, same thing when trying
single user mode.

I made a "fresh" installation on the secondary hd (hdb) and was then able to
boot. When attempting to mount the original drive partitions, though, I am
only able to mount the original /boot and / partitions. the original /home
contained only dmesg.txt. Attempts to mount other partitions result in:
VFS: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, or too many mounted
filesystems.
(I am using mount with the -t ext2 option for fs.)

Any ideas on how I can work through this mess?

Shawn

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