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Subject: Re: [aclug-L] More on lost kernel
From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 15 May 1999 19:21:18 -0500
Reply-to: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx

To me, this sounds like a partitioning or LILO problem, although
without seeing the system itself, I can't say what.  Does the RedHat
install offer to make you a boot floppy, and if so, can you boot from
that?

-- John

Wayne White <wwhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Ok folks, the latest. The young man tried to install with the
> same boot disk that I used to install last weekend. Same result.
> After he selects the option to install RH6.0 and it starts to
> try to load and uncompress linux it stops with the error message
> that the kernel can't be found. He's trying to set up a dual 
> boot with windows on a NEC machine. Any ideas what he might be
> doing wrong or why he might be having this problem. I really
> need to help this kid with this.
> 
> Thanx,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> 

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John Goerzen   Linux, Unix consulting & programming   jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx |
Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade)       www.debian.org |
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