If you'll notice evidently if you 'do-nothing' in the UpGrade option
it will do nothing. Which means by all this is that it won't change
LILO at all including adding the new kernel to the LILO boot menu.
I also should have noticed that LILO was the culprit. I just figured since
the user could load with the floppy that it wasn't LILO. But if the floppy
was made, and correct me if I'm wrong, from the Linux install it would fail
as well and then we would know LILO was pointing to the wrong image.
> >To:
> >Subject: Dual boot problems with Red Hat 7.2
> >
> >
> >I have an SMP system (Compaq SP750) that has been happily dual booting
> >Red Hat 7.1 and Win2K. I created the system
> >according to: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html
> >almost identical to the process you describe.
> >My problems began when I upgraded the RH 7.1 to RH 7.2. Initially, when
> >offered the choice of boots: do nothing, LILO or GRUB--I foolishly assumed
> >that "do nothing" would still work. Nothing meant "nothing" and "nothing"
> >would work: including boot floppies. Thank heavens for the rescue
> >functionality on the CD. Next try was to keep the boot partition as the
> >RH 7.1 version but install lilo (not, of course, putting lilo in the MBR).
>Ok, well now boot from floppies works, but after carefully copying the sector
> >onto a floppy and back to my NTFS Win2k partition; selecting it results in:
> >LI and nothing more. I next tried upgrading the boot partition file system
>to the new RH 7.2 filesystem, but get the same effect. I can't figure this
> >out. I must have done something silly, but I don't know what it is.
> >To recap: Win2k boots fine if I select if from the NT boot prompt. RH 7.2
> >does not boot when selected from the prompt, but boots fine from the boot
> >floppy (i.e. it's a healthy system).
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
>-----Original Message-----
>From: poop occurs [mailto:poopoccurs@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:59 PM
>Subject: Re: Dual boot problems with Red Hat 7.2
>
>
>Ok, you could dual boot with 7.1 and uped to 7.2 using the upgrade
>option in the install. I remember this was a problem for me when I
>recompiled the kernel once all I would get was a LI at the top left.
>Have you tried making a new boot floppy? and does that one work ok?
>Since the kernel direction come from the floppy it might be there.
>No typos in the boot.ini file? Let me know about the new boot floppy
>to just test the esy first.
>To: "poop occurs"
>Subject: RE: Dual boot problems with Red Hat 7.2
>Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 02:52:22 -0500
>
>
>Heh, thanks for the suggestions!
>I've been around long enough to know what "core memory" is, so I should
>know better, but I still believed that Red Hat's upgrade would do the
>right thing. Well, it mostly does. However, it didn't update the image
>name in lilo.conf. Funny how booting fails when you try to boot an image that isn't there.
>Hopefully you foolish waste of time will save someone else the grief.
So is it working now? I wanted to post it if ya get it going and
exactly what it was. I will basicaly put this email string into a
html page without our info included just like the other two for now.
Yes, it is working fine now. The actual problem was that the RH 7.2
upgrade did not upgrade the image name in my lilo.conf (so the boot
tried to load an image file that was no longer there.)