Unable to Install GeexBox to my HDD
 

Hey,

I am unable to install geexbox to my system. I have 3 HDDs sda, hda,
hdb. I have slackware linux installed on hdb2 with lilo on MBR. I had
a spare hdb3 2GB which I formatted as ext3.

I followed instructions at
http://www.geexbox.org/wiki/index.php/Installation for installing.

I mount geexbox-1.1-en.i386.iso to /mnt/tmp then copied everything
from its GEEXBOX dir to root of hdb3 (which was mounted on /mnt/a )

Then I copied vmlinuz and the initrd.gz to my hdb2's /boot. renamed
them to geexlinuz and geexinit.gz . Then I edited my /etc/lilo.conf
and added the following :

image = /boot/geexlinuz
initrd=/boot/geexinit.gz
label=geexbox
append="init=linuxrc lang=en keymap=qwerty root=/dev/ram0
splash=silent video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr boot=hdb3"
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking

image=/boot/geexlinuz
initrd=/boot/geexinit.gz
label=geexboxdebug
append="initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 rw init=linuxrc boot=hdb3
lang=en remote=atiusb receiver=atiusb keymap=qwerty splash=0
video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr debugging"


I also tried changing boot=hdb3 to boot=/dev/hdb3 but to no avail.

GeexBox just doesn't boot. It stops with the message "can't find
second stage files" and gives me a shell.

IT seems that it has a problem with extended partitions. It tries to
read my hdb1 which is a W95 Ext'd partition as reiserfs and my sda2
(which is also an extended partition) as NTFS and gives some 10-20
errors before giving up. Then it prints ntfs driver number and then
gives error (not able to find second stage files)

Any help would be appreciated

Regards
duryodhan