Hi again Nuno, I tried an experiment this morning. I used my ubuntu intrepid livecd and installed it on ty problem system. It installed fine and when I rebooted, it worked just great!
Don't know what was going wrong with the lenny installer that it couldn't install properly, but I will try it again another day. > -----Original Message----- > From: Nuno Magalhães [mailto:nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt] > Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 4:43 PM > To: debian-user > Subject: Re: lenny won't boot after re-install > > > Hi, > > I haven't had that problem before, i can't really help (plus it's a > friday night and most of the list answers from their work places i > guess). The only drive that failed on me just became completely > unusable, period. It would make a snaping sound repeatedly (like > releasing something that was held by a spring) and the BIOS would > complain there's no OS to be found. > > Does the screen go blank after the POST or is it always blank from the > second you power on? If the first, well, it could be Debian or could > be the hard-drive. If the latter then it's most likely the hardware: > probably the motherboard, or the video card (home desktops aren't > usually configurable to ignore lack of keyboard/monitor), or... > something else. > > Well, you can't edit the MBR. You do what you tried to do: > overwrite it. > > It may be a silly question, but since liveCDs mount their systems onto > RAM, i guess you mounted your harddrive's /dev (as in hda or sda), not > the liveCD's? > > > rebooted without the livecd, and nothing. I put my hand on > the top of the system, and it feels like the hard drive keeps > searching for something to load. I am wondering if my > harddrive is failing. > > Well if you can mount /dev and all i guess the harddrive isn't really > failing, otherwise you'd have lots of I/O errors flying around and > driving your kernel crazy. > > Sorry but i'm no Debian guru and i'm not experienced with these > hardware issues. Maybe linuxquestions.org or some hardware forum might > be of more use. don't forget to specify the computer hardware. > > HTH, > nuno > > -- > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org