On Tue, 21 May 2002 12:28:40 +1000 John Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 May 2002 12:18, you wrote: > > John Haywood wrote: > > > > > > I've just transferred my setup into a new case/motherboard - a > > >GA-5AX, and a couple of problems have arisen: > > > > > > 1. I can only boot into Linux via floppy or failsafe (worked fine > > >on another board - Gigabyte GA-5AA). Oh, I'm running MDK 8.1 with a > > >few upgrades, including kernel 2.4.17-5mdk > > > > You did not confirm that after floppy booting, as the superuser, you > > ran lilo. This reinstalls the booting information for the partition > > / MBR. > > Sorry - my omission. > > Yes, I reran lilo. I've also have "lba32" in lilo.conf, and have even > tried using grub. I wish I could remember what it was I tweaked but for about 6 months I had a box with the Intel 815 setup doing the same thing. I kept playing with the BIOS when I had time and one day I finally hit the right combo. For some reason my BIOS swore I didn't have a hard drive installed on the box. Then I noticed that the CDROM on the same controller was recognized. So I just kept playing with the system settings. No matter what I did with the HDD it didn't help. Finally I reset to default and made a tweak.... undid the same tweak until poof it worked. Could be a bios thing for you as well since it does boot from floppy. James > -- > john in sydney > ================================= > Mandrake Linux 8.2 > Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk > Uptime: 1 hour 6 minutes > ================================= > >
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