john gennard wrote:
No.
Katipo wrote:
john gennard wrote:
Why can't you reboot?
steel,
I did nothing to 'avoid' the option, quite simply it was not made available to me.
I'm not sure whether the DVD contains beta4 - the write up merely says " taken
the latest Debian DVD build made with the jigdo tool"
At the end of the base install, I was given the options:- Use bootloader Grub Use bootloader Lilo Proceed without a bootloader
Then comes reboot, which I cannot do - if I could, I would go to the base system configuration tool menu.
The ability to reboot has more to do with how you have your boot options set in the bios than anything else.
On installs, have your first boot option set as cdrom, your second as hdd0, or whichever drive you are installing to.
Then, when you remove the install CD from the cdrom, boot automatically passes to the harddrive, and you're away.
You don't need to create a boot disc to boot, I bypassed the option on both occassions.
Regards,
David,
I don't understand how you do that.
After extracting the DVD and changing the first boot option back to 'floppy',
booting goes from floppy to hdd0 which boots the only OS bootable from
the MBR. I haven't made the partition on which Sarge is being installed bootable
as I assume that might cause problems. Is that what you do?
If you don't make it bootable, you have no access to it.
Especially if, as you say, you do not have the boot disc option during install.
There should be an option during install that asks you something to the effect of:-
'Do you want Debian to handle your boot programme?', or words to that effect.
If you say yes to this, you will have access to both options as far as operating systems are concerned. (I'm assuming there are only the two involved?)
After install, you will be presented with a GUI screen on bootup, where you will be given a choice as to which O.S. you want access to, for that session.
You can do things the way you are attempting to do them, and it does give you access to your system in an emergency, when you can't gain access in the conventional manner. But I am getting rid of all floppys from my systems, and cdroms, and just having an external cd-rw that I can move from unit to unit as required. There are rescue discs that you can obtain, that are far more comprehensive as far as rescue features go, than a floppy.
You might have issues if you are dual booting with windows, as that likes to own the drive it's on, but I don't know if your install partition is on the same drive.
Windows isn't the only one like that, some of the BSDs have that characteristic, also. But if it's on a separate drive? No problem.
Regards,
David.
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