[TriLUG] Dell 2400 and Linux

[Janyne Kizer]

Right, Linux boots fine.  If I press F10 go to to the Utilities
partition, it says that it's going there but guess what?  It lies.  RH
still loads.

"David A. Cafaro" wrote:
> 
> I have a Dell 2400 with RH7.2 and it seems to have no problems.  I made
> sure I didn't delete the Dell partition, and I had Grub stick it's boot
> loader in the MBR.  On fdisk it marks the dell partition as the boot
> device.  I haven't tried using the dell tools so I don't know if they are
> broken, but Linux boots fine (and stable).  Running RH 7.2 + RH updates,
> MySQL, Tomcat, Apache, 1.5 Gigs Memory, and 4 18gig SCSI HDs, and a single
> PIII.  Unfortunately, I can't take the system down at the moment to test
> out the dell tools.
> 
> David
> 
> At 01:41 PM 2/20/2002, you wrote:
> >I have some Dell 2400 servers that I plan to deploy with RH 7.2.  I have
> >run into a small problem with the Utilities paritition on these
> >machines. I create the partition and I can boot from it fine.  I install
> >Linux and I can no longer boot from it.  I don't know if that overwrote
> >something or what.  Have any of you run into this situation?
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Janyne Kizer
CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5
Systems Programmer Administrator I
NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Extension and Administrative Technology Services
Phone: (919) 515-3609