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Title: AXP: The installation ends incorrectly

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AXP: The installation ends incorrectly
Applies to
SuSE Linux AXP: Version 6.1
Symptom:
Instead of continuing the installation as stated in the handbook the
computer reboots after which the computer can no longer be booted
from the hard drive.
Cause:
The handbook, due to technical reasons was printed before the CD
development was finished.
Solution:
- Boot with MILO and the installations disk using the installation
procedures stated in the handbook.
- Go through all of the procedures as given in the handbook up to
the point that YaST starts.
- Switch to the second console (ALT-F2).
- If the computer did not reboot after you created the DOS
partition during the first installation format the partition with
mkdosfs.
for example:
mkdosfs /dev/sda1
in the case of a SCSI
hard drive; mkdosfs /dev/hda1
for an EIDE hard drive.
- Mount the MILO disk and the DOS partition
In addition you need to set two mountpoints:
mkdir /mntdisk
mkdir /mntfloppy
After this you can mount the file systems:
mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mntdisk
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mntfloppy
/dev/hda1
is the DOS partition in which MILO resides (if you have other partitions that already exist on the harddrive the partition will have a different name following the rule: /dev/hdaX
where X is a number between 1 and 15
- Copy the files from the disk onto the DOS partition:
cp /mntfloppy/* /mntdisk
- Unmount both file systems:
unmount /mntdisk
unmount /mntfloppy
switch back to the 1st Console (ALT-F1) and end YaST.
- In order to remove MILO from RAM first use the
shutdown
command and then turn the computer off and reboot.
- Next change the BIOS configuration following the instructions in section 2.2.1 of the handbook in order to boot from the hard drive.
- Boot the computer with the new configuration.
- Now finish the installation as described in the handbook.

Keywords: AXP, ALPHA, INSTALLATION, MILO, NT, ARC, CONSOLE

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SDB-tw_installaxp, Copyright SuSE GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany
- Version: 30. Jul 1999
SuSE GmbH - Last generated: 08. Oct 1999 11:50:29
by wimer
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