New install boot problem

Richard B. Pyne rpyne at kinfolk.org
Fri Jan 8 06:37:06 CET 2010


On 1/7/2010 10:33 PM, Richard B. Pyne wrote:
> I am having trouble installing Lunar on a brand new machine. The 
> install from the 1.6.4 ISO seems to go fine, but on reboot it will not 
> even try to boot from the hard drive. When I do a maintenance boot 
> from the CD, I can mount all of the partitions and everything looks 
> good. I have checked and the /boot partition is marked bootable. If I 
> boot from the CD with the root= parameter, the boot dies with a 
> "unable to open console" message.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I am using lilo.

--Richard




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