Red Hat 9 Boot failure

wxPython Users
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Hi all,

I have one 40GB hard drive which has 30GB partitioned for Windows 2000 and I just installed Red Hat 9 in the remaining 10. I did not load choose to install a boot loader for various reasons but I did create a boot stiffy. It looks as if the stiffy is now faulty because when I insert it, it loads Syslinux or whatever but as soon as 'Loading vmlinuz..' comes up it tells me there is a boot failure.

Now I want to load a boot loader :slight_smile: Grub has worked fine for me for dual-booting in the past so I'll be happy to load that. Is there a way to load it now without re-installing Linux?

路路路

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Regards,
Wayne

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Wayne,

I have one 40GB hard drive which has 30GB partitioned for Windows 2000
and I just installed Red Hat 9 in the remaining 10. I did not load
choose to install a boot loader for various reasons but I did create a
boot stiffy. It looks as if the stiffy is now faulty because when I
insert it, it loads Syslinux or whatever but as soon as 'Loading
vmlinuz..' comes up it tells me there is a boot failure.

Now I want to load a boot loader :slight_smile: Grub has worked fine for me for
dual-booting in the past so I'll be happy to load that. Is there a
way to load it now without re-installing Linux?

You do realise that this is the wxPython list and not a Linux list?
Also remember that "stiffy", in the sense that you're using it, is not
as popular outside of ZA as in. :slight_smile:

You could try booting from the Redhat CD and using its rescue
functionality (if the Redhat install CD still has this). Alternatively,
at the CD boot prompt, type something like:
linux root=/dev/hdwhatever_your_root_is ro

It'll use the kernel on the CD but mount your hard drive linux partition
as root. Once running, you can try and make use of the Redhat config
utils to install a boot loader.

路路路

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 08:32, Wayne Koorts wrote:

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Hi all,

Apologies for this thread - selected the wrong mailing list from my address book. But if other RH9 users have a solution that would be good :wink:

路路路

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Regards,
Wayne