SETIA INDAH

Phew.. i've been drafting this post since last weekend! Bz..bz..bz [utterly boring]. Struggling with poster preparations and also the process of installing bunch of softwares back into this dearly-PC.

Friday; 14 Jan
After a long wait, finally i've succeeded installing dual boot Linux with Win2K. Alhamdulillah. After all the strains n pains, not to say the tears shedded that have dampened my cheeks every night, finally its working! Ura kept motivating me with her saying "Sabar linda, bukan senang nak senang, cuba lagi smpai dpt". I made it! Here are brief notes for my future reference on Red Hat Installation. [Recently i easily become mak nenek lar, so easy to forget things].

Inside the tower box:
2 hard disks : Master (WDC -20GB) & Slave (Maxtor - 80GB)
256 DDR RAM
P3 1.8Ghz
BootDrive on WDC DataDrives on Maxtor Windows 2000
Software Needed: RedHat Linux 9.0 & Partition Magic 7.0

I have identified these basic-important factors below before doing the installation RHLinux :

1. My comp must hv enough unpartitioned disk space for the installation [done]
2. To choose Workstation type for GNOME or KDE : Requires atleast 2.1 GB [done]
3. I did make sure the /boot location is placed within the 1024 cylinder (which i placed it after the MBR-Master Boot Record) [done]

Question is : Why i still cant install RHLinux with GRUB Loader?
Error Occured : boot process hang after apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b (Driver version 1.16)Two solution regarding apm problem :

1. Disable apm option in BIOS (how come? my BIOS didnt even have this advance power management option). Then i edited the kernel(/grub.conf ) into : kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb apm=off. Concl : Not a good helper.

2. I tried to change the /boot/grub/grub.conf
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)
root (hd0,2)kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd-2.4.18-14.img
------ into ------
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)
root (hd0,2)kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=/dev/hda6
initrd-2.4.18-14.img
Still no hope! After so many attempts, at last i decided to install RH9 with LILO boot loader.

Amazingly, it works pulak!! Haiyar, if in the first place i've tried to change the boot loader, sure i will not wasting so much time like this! Sumhow, Alhamdulillah. Although the GRUB installation problem still in ??? but i didnt have much time to solve the problem at this moment. As long as i can hv my Linux environment for the project, its good enough. I will KIV the error to one fine day.

References:
Linux Questions
Red Hat Open Source Leader
Ed's Software Guide on Linux