On 6/23/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Haan wrote: > > On 6/23/05, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On 6/23/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>Michael Haan wrote: > >>> > >>>>On 6/23/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>Michael Haan wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>>I don't know what is going on here. I've installed x86 2005.0 on a > >>>>>>Dell Optiplex. I've installed a new harddrive (b/c I took the factory > >>>>>>one for another gentoo box), run through the x86 install, built a > >>>>>>kernel and installed grub. The box refuses to boot from the hard > >>>>>>drive. In fact, in the BIOS setup, it refuses to let me specify the > >>>>>>hard drive as a boot option. Anyone have any idea why? > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>That's odd. Have you tried to chain load it from a grub floppy or cd? > >>>>> > >>>>>rootnoverify (hd0) > >>>>>chainloader +1 > >>>>> > >>>>>What kind of hard drive and disk controller are they? > >>>>> > >>>>>Zac > >>>>>-- > >>>>>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>I'm not even sure what that means! The fact of the matter is, the PC > >>>>refuses to even try to boot from the HD (FYI - it has booted linux in > >>>>the past from the HD). > >>>> > >>> > >>>So, the bios detects the hard drive but it won't let you specify it as the > >>>boot device? What version of bios is that? > >>> > >>>Zac > >>>-- > >>>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >>> > >>> > > > >>It looks like Dell messed up with the BIOS, they allways do > >>modifications for their own purpose, I had problems like that in a > >>Compaq too... As someone said before, try running Gentoo from a boot > >>floppy (if your BIOS refuses to boot from floppy, get a hammer and > >>throw your computer of a bridge), this way you'll know if its a BIOS > >>issue. > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > Ok. How do I get a Gentoo boot floppy? > > > > Were you able to boot a different hard drive with same bios and disk > controller? > > Here are instructions for creating a grub floppy: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Creating-a-GRUB-boot-floppy.html > > Maybe you can boot with that using these commands: > > rootnoverify (hd0) > chainloader +1 > > Zac > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
I was able to boot the factory HD (and, I think, possibly the CD too) with SuSE. But I took that drive when I built another Gentoo box, so I replaced it with another drive I had laying around. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
