[CLUG] Odd boot failure on new install of RH6.2

[Collins_Paul at emc.com]

But from what I can tell, Peter's colleage did a new install after the
resizing stuff, not before.  I've done Debian installs on boxes that have
had space created with Partition Magic with no issues.

The below seems to refer to an existing system, and the issue is caused by
the way LILO ignores ext2 and maps the files' blocks directly.  A re-run of
/sbin/lilo will fix that.  If you delete or add partitions, your /etc/fstab
will require adjustment, as well as parameters passed to md, and so on.  It
gets messy.

If you want a bootloader that can cope with some of this stuff, check out
GRUB.  It can read ext2, and so partition resizing/defragmentation will not
affect it.  Renaming will, obviously.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James_Baldwin at dell.com [mailto:James_Baldwin at dell.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 3:04 PM
> To: pflynn at imbolc.ucc.ie; cork at linux.ie
> Subject: RE: [CLUG] Odd boot failure on new install of RH6.2
> 
> 
> Partition Magic has problems with ext2 unfortunately ! ! !
> 
> Excerpt from PQ site:  http://www.powerquest.com/support/pm-faqt.html
> 
> I resized my Linux Ext2 partition with PartitionMagic.   Now 
> when the system
> boots I only see <LI>, and it hangs.  Why is this happening 
> and how can it
> be fixed? 
> 
> The Linux operating system contains disk partition names and numbers
> embedded in several places in the operating system. If its 
> LILO boot loader
> program is also used, it contains embedded disk sector 
> information as well.
> Sometimes, after creating or deleting a partition on a system 
> on a drive
> that contains a Linux partition, or after moving or copying a 
> partition
> using DriveCopy or PartitionMagic, the copy of Linux on the 
> drive may no
> longer boot. (This may include partitions you have manipulated with
> PartitionMagic 4.)
> 
> To restore Linux, please see PowerQuest Knowledge Base 
> Document #pm1028.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> James.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Flynn [mailto:pflynn at imbolc.ucc.ie]
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 2:50 PM
> To: cork at linux.ie
> Subject: [CLUG] Odd boot failure on new install of RH6.2
> 
> 
> A colleague just installed RH 6.2, having defragged her 20Gb Windows
> installation and used Partition Magic to truncate it and create a new 
> partition for Linux. All went well, but on reboot, it displays:
> 
> 	LI
> 
> and hangs. Obviously it is picking up the start of LILO, correctly,
> but then something is going wrong. Any clues?
> 
> ///Peter
> 
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