Subject: Re: [suse-axp] LX164 install problems
From: Erik Arneson (erik@starseed.com)
Date: Mon Jan 31 2000 - 10:09:53 PST
On 31 Jan 00, Mattias Hermansson <mattias@hemmet.chalmers.se> wrote:
> > Anyhow, after both RedHat 6.1 and Debian 2.1 refused to install, I tried
> > out SuSE, and it looks great! YaST is really nice.
>
> Sure is... But I would really like YaST2...:)
Is that the graphical installer? My LX164 has (of all things) just a
lowly Trident card with 512KB of video ram. I think it's an ISA. But
that's alright...I can run X apps to display on my other box. :)
> > init complains first about not being able to run the /etc/rc.d scripts,
> > and then about not being able to run /sbin/mingetty. I can't even boot
> > to single-user mode. An 'ls' command from the MILO> prompt shows that
> > /sbin/mingetty and the /etc/rc.d directory stuff is all there. What
> > could be causing this problem?
>
> Could it be that the permissions isn't correctly set up. I haven't seen
> this problem myself. Can you boot with the "Boot installed system" in the
> bootdisk YaST?
I can't install with the "Boot installed system" option, either. One of
my coworkers suggested that perhaps the SCSI driver isn't being loaded
correctly, or something like that. How would I be able to check or
specify which modules to load at boot time?
> > I was thinking it might be a MILO problem, and that I may need to
> > upgrade. However, I can't find any instructions on upgrading MILO, only
> > on installing new MILOs. Help!
>
> It shouldn't be... I'm using an old MILO as well and that works
> great! Actually, there hasn't until resently been another version
> availible.
Oh good. I don't really feel like installing a new version of MILO.
Thanks for your feedback!
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