lilo for fedora livecd 7.9.2 on a dell optiplex 320

sam bedouglas at earthlink.net
Sun Oct 14 15:09:25 UTC 2007


Hi Dave.

The article in question, which is exactly on point is:
http://wirelessness.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/installing-fedora-linux-on-a-de
ll-optiplex-320/

The Dell Optiplex 320 boxes use sata ati sb600 chipset/controllers. Teying
to load a current RHEL4/5 crashes/dies regardless of what input attributes
are used when trying to install the OS. There is apparently a bug in the
kernel being used, as possibly pointed out in an email from a dell mgr. (Has
to do with ports being allocated when dealing with sata.)

Rather than try to install the latest DVD from FC7/8, I'm trying to install
the livecd for the 7.9.2 tree of FC. I've tried following the article/sites,
and am at the point where I'm dealing with lilo. It appears that using grub
doesn't work, as grub/install somehow seems to die when dealing with the lvm
on the dell box. This has been my experience. I can't get grub to play with
the dell.

After everything has been installed, and I pull the livecd out of the tray,
and do a reboot, so the box is booting/installing from the hard drive, the
line for the kernel to be uncompressed is never displayed. The install/load
process dies prior to getting there, and I can't tell where exactly as
there's no displayed information...

So, this is where the current issue is. If one looks through the net, you'll
see a number of people have this issue with loading linux/rhel/fedora onto
this particular box.

The issue might be rather simple, but I can't see it as of yet.

Thanks



-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of David Timms
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 2:47 AM
To: For users of Fedora
Subject: Re: lilo for fedora livecd 7.9.2 on a dell optiplex 320


sam wrote:
> trying to install fedora livecd on a dell optiplex 320. after researching
> via google, i'm now at a section where i'm dealing with lilo, as opposed
to
> grub.
Er yuk. I think you are better of with grub. You will probably find more
help here if you take the grub route...

 > the arcticles i've seen have indicated that grub's lvm causes issues
> when installing.
Maybe point out the article - it may not be relevant to your situation.

> i'm getting an "fatal: linux experimental device... needs to be defined"
> err... when i setup the lilo.conf file, and run lilo -v to check the
> config..
>
> if you have knowledge about any of the above, let me know!!!
Brain wont go back that far...

> this is a little bizzare.
So is using lilo on a modern linux distro.

Perhaps we could go back a bit to what was not being happy with grub ?
Any error messages ?
Did you start with a blank disk ? Or are you dual-booting or what ?

DaveT.

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