RE: I made a Success of it!

Mike,

I was afraid you were going to have a setup like this. The script is written
to work with a drive that has no partition other than the ones that the
workstation installation of Linux installs. At this point your best bet is
to follow the written instructions and manually do the RT setup. If you have
successfully loaded the extra rpm files and have untarred the RT patch I
would start with the make all command in /usr/src/rtl and then proceed
through the steps.

Be happy that the new lilo configuration did not install or you would
probably be unable to boot to either Linux or NT.

Have you done a rdisk /s in NT before installing Linux?? Do you have a NT
boot floppy that will let you get NT started if you happen to toast the MBR
with a bad lilo setup?

Hope this helps.


Tim
[Denver, CO]

> From: Mike Gann <mikegann@...>
>
> Tim -
>
> I do not see vmlinuz-1 in the /boot directory.
> I will try to compile again.
>
> As for the dual boot, I already had NT server installed on an
> extra computer. So I used Partition Magic to re-size the NT partition
> so I could create the extended partition for Linux.
>
> The boot loader is handled by Lilo. After loading Linux, Lilo was
> aware of the NT partition.
>
> I don't have a machine to control with this stuff yet, but I
> figured I could work on this part while I save up for a mill.
>
> Mike
>
> Tim Goldstein wrote:
> >
> > From: "Tim Goldstein" <timg@...>
> >
> > Check in your /boot directory and see if you have the file vmlinuz-1
> > Also, look at your /etc/lilo.conf file and see if it has an
> entry for the
> > rtlinux.
> >
> > If you have the file in /boot you compiled OK. If the rtlinux entry is
> > missing in your lilo.conf you somehow did not get the lilo update to run
> > correctly. If so, that is good as the one with the script is
> not set for a
> > dual boot system and you will need to handle it manually.
> >
> > Let me know what you find and I will try to help. BTW, how are
> you handling
> > the dual boot?? Is LILO providing the boot loader services or
> are you using
> > another program? Also, how is your drive setup arranged in
> regard to NT and
> > Linux??
> >
> > Tim
> > [Denver, CO]
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Mike Gann <mikegann@...>
> > To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 5:29 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] I made a Success of it!
> >
> > > From: Mike Gann <mikegann@...>
> > >
> > >
> > > I used Tim's install script to install the RT-Linux patch.
> > > I didn't see any errors and it looked like it worked. But
> > > I don't have the RT-Linux option when I boot and LILO comes up.
> > >
> > > But I do duel boot NT and Linux. The NT choice is still there.
> > >
> > > How can I verify that the kernal is indeed patched?
> > >
> > > Mike Gann