Folks, The first part will look a bit like the last message, but that is just the background. Please read on.
I've been running SuSE 8.0 on my home system (primary desktop/mail-reader/web surfer) for some time. My boot and / disk is a 20GB EIDE disk (master on Primary IDE). I decided to upgrade to SuSE 9.0 while adding an additional NIC and a 250GB EIDE drive. So I carefully saved some data and shut down normally. I disconnected the old boot disk to insure nothing could happen to it. I'm having troubles booting off the new disk. So I pulled out the SCSI card and disconnected the SCSI disks to insure they would not be interfering or be harmed. No change. I've set the BIOS to only boot from floppy or CD, but I still get a "Failed to boot from HD" error message that indicates I should go to the setup or hit F1 to continue. So, I finally figured that I *could* continue with the process by hitting F1 (I'm getting older and slower every day) and that it would then boot from the CD. So I've started the SuSE install process and it has taken my data, partitioned and formatted the disk, installed the preliminary software and data and reboots the system to complete the install. Oops. I get the same "Failed to boot from HD" problem (with or without BIOS selection of HD as a boot option). Hitting F1, however, restarts the SuSE install process. Complete with determining hardware and asking for partition setup (so it can re-partition and format the disk). Stuck in a 45 minute loop! Turning the BIOS option to boot from hard disk back on, removing the SuSE CD from the drive -- neither had any effect, singly or jointly. At this point I'm trying the SuSE "Failsafe" install (which I notice does not recognize the USB Flash Card reader), but don't expect that to work, either. If it doesn't I'll try resetting the BIOS to the "Failsafe" settings (which didn't allow for all of my hardware). However, I'm curious about what can cause this problem. Why is it failing an HD boot when there is no HD boot option selected in the BIOS? Is my "not very old" motherboard toast? In a previous message I mentioned that it also balks on booting from the previous HD, claiming problems with the ReiserFS partition (which should have been fine after a gentle shut down). This implies a problem with the hardware of the motherboard, or the BIOS, to my non-hardware oriented mind. In Harmony's Way and In A Chord, Tom ;-}) Tom Condon Registered Linux User #154358 Plain Text Emails Don't Spread Virii! _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
