Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - ARCHITECTURE-SPECIFIC INFORMATION 11-12-2006, Дополнительное руководство

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Boot Disk
The boot disk is a useful interim solution if you have difficulties configuring the
other possibilities or if you want to postpone the decision regarding the final boot
mechanism. A boot disk may also be a suitable solution in connection with OS/2
or Windows NT.
This approach only works if your system has a floppy drive. The boot disk can be
created with YaST. See Section 7.5.3, “Boot and Rescue Disks” (Chapter 7, System
Configuration with YaST, ↑Installation and Administration).
Virus Warning after Installation
There are BIOS variants that check the structure of the boot sector (MBR) and er-
roneously display a virus warning after the installation of GRUB or LILO. Solve
this problem by entering the BIOS and looking for corresponding adjustable settings.
For example, switch off virus protection. You can switch this option back on again
later. It is unnecessary, however, if Linux is the only operating system you use.
4.2 Problems Installing
If an unexpected problem occurs during installation, information is needed to determine
the cause of the problem. Use the following directions to find useful information:
• Check the outputs on the various consoles. You can switch consoles with the key
combination
Ctrl
+
Alt
+
Fn
. For example, obtain a shell in which to execute various
commands by pressing
Ctrl
+
Alt
+
F2
.
• Try launching the installation in failsafe mode. If the installation works without
problems in this case, there is an incompatibility that causes either
ACPI
or
APIC
to fail. In some cases, a BIOS or firmware update fixes this problem.
• Check the system messages on a console in the installation system by entering the
command
dmesg
.
12 Architecture-Specific Information