Rhel5 hard disk installation FAQs and Solutions

I used to install linux on a CD. Now I have rhel5 and want to Upgrade linux. I want to try the hard disk installation method. I checked it online for a long time. There are also several methods: loadlin and grub are useful. You can use either method, but you have encountered some problems during installation. Methods on the Internet: 1. Two files in the/isolinux directory under the first image of RHEL5 need to be extracted. Vmlinuz and initrd. img. (the isolinux directory has been used to install linux on a CD. Now I have rhel5. I Want To Upgrade linux and try the hard disk installation method. I checked it online for a long time, there are also several methods: loadlin and grub, either of which can be used, but I encountered some problems during the installation process.

Online methods:

1. Extract the two files in the/isolinux directory under the first image of RHEL5. Vmlinuz and initrd. img. (The isolinux directory contains the files required to start from CD;) (vmlinux is an executable file that contains static and Linux kernel executable file formats) to prevent errors, I decompress all the files in/isolinux.

2. Place the image file and the above two files in any windows partition. Remember that the file can only be in the fat/fat32 format. Otherwise, the image cannot be found when you select the partition where the image file is located during hard disk installation. For example, the NTFS format cannot be supported.

3.use your dos tool to start the computer, find your downloaded grub-for-dos, and run grub.exe.

4. boot the linux image in the hard disk in grub:

A. Run find vmlinuz (search for the partition where vmlinuz is located ).
B. Run root (hdx. y) (this is the partition where/boot is located. The information in the brackets is the echo of the above command .)
C. kernel/vmlinuz (used to specify the Linux kernel)
D. initrd/initrd. img (used to specify the initrd file)
E. boot