Hi Stuart,
All of the CD's that have been burned with my Windows desktop using
InfraRecorder will boot the desktop tower and run fine. Per one suggestion I
burned CD's at different speeds but this did not make a difference.
With help from Przemek, using hal91 the hard drive was partitioned. Now
fdisk -l Enter displays:
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1027.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software form other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1 1027 8249346 83 Linux
native
hdc : tray open or drive not ready
hdc : tray open or drive not ready
hdc : tray open
end request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector 0
[hal91 -=- /] _
and dmesg | grep hdc Enter displays:
hdc: ATAPI CD ROM DRIVE 50X MAX, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc : tray open or drive not ready
hdc : tray open or drive not ready
hdc : tray open
[hal91 -=- /] _
Are there other commands that would provide useful information?
Thanks for your questions and advice.
Hopefully this is closer to working.
Have a good night,
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Stevenson" <stus...@gmail.com>
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Linux installation problem Boot accomplished withhal91
Linux bootable floppy
> Jim,
> Have you booted the CD in another computer? If not, you need to be
> able to boot the CD. When you are able to boot the CD then the
> installation process will identify the hard drive and partition it for
> you. It will do an automatically generated configuration or you can do
> a manual configuration. The automatically generated configuration will
> work for you.
> If the CD will boot in another computer you need to look at the
> motherboard, bios, and the CD reader in the computer you are having
> trouble with.
> If the CD will not boot in another computer you need to make
> another CD and be sure you write a bootable image. You will probably
> need to specifically instruct the CD writing software to make it write
> a bootable image.
> HTH
> Stuart
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Jim Fleig - CNC Services
> <j...@cncservices.ws> wrote:
>> The tower has booted!
>>
>> Thank you for all of the replies. I read (but did not understand) all of
>> them. It seemed to make sense to me to focus on trying to boot with a
>> floppy because the DBAN floppy would boot every time. It took a long time
>> to find and then a couple of attempts to get hal91 to write to a floppy
>> correctly. If this would be helpful to anyone else, hal91 is available
>> here: http://jspiro.tripod.com/linux/hal91.htm.
>>
>> I'm almost (skip the almost, I am) afraid to do anything next. Now that
>> hal91 is up and running there is a fdisk command available. I have looked
>> this up on the internet and I do not understand all that I am reading. I
>> have partitioned hard drives for Windows based CNC control systems with
>> instructions from the manufacturer. This was successful because of the
>> specific instructions. I did not interpret generic commands and decide how
>> to partition the drive. Right now I am not even sure if fdisk is the next
>> thing to do. Is there a command to check the hard drive? Are there
>> commands for checking the other parts of the system? CD drive, motherboard,
>> RAM, etc.? If there are commands for making these checks and all of the
>> checks pass would fdisk be the next thing to do?
>>
>> Thanks again for all the replies.
>>
>> I look forward to the next instructions and hopefully the next step of
>> progress to be up and running again.
>>
>> Have a good day,
>>
>> Jim Fleig
>>
>>
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