[Sheflug] Firewall set up.

[Barrie Bremner <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "richard" == richard davies <llewelyn.davies [at] eudoramail.com> writes:

    richard> I'm having serious problems with setting up a
    richard> firewall. Unlike Darrell I can't even get the smoothwall
    richard> box to boot.  Trying to run Smoothwall 0.98 on a 486 DX66
    richard> with 16 Meg RAM, 2.1 Gig harddrive, 3Com network cards.

    richard> What I have done is boot from floppy and then proceed to
    richard> a CD install as per instructions.

    richard> The install has gone fine as far as I know.

    richard> It has ejected the CD then run the setup program without
    richard> any apparent problems recognising the network card with
    richard> no problems but when it comes to reboot it hangs every
    richard> time with

    richard> LI 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    richard> 00

LILO bootloader doesn't like something.

Were there any errors relating to LILO?

The easiest (probably the only way) is to boot from a boot or rescue
floppy and check the config in /etc/lilo.conf, rerun /sbin/lilo, and
see how it goes.

It might also be worth checking that at least one partition on the HDD
is marked as bootable - fdisk.

If you haven't got a boot disk - try tomsrtbt or (as I found out
myself tonight..) GNU GRUB on a floppy. Check Freshmeat for both of
those.
 
Cheers.

Baz.

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