> > My reason for assuming this is that I have installed SuSE
> 7.2 Pro on a new
> > hard drive, and the Bios tells me there is an Hard Drive
> Failure if I try
> > to boot from it. But if I boot from CD or floppy I can not
> only see that
> > installation, but access it, as well.
> Did you make your /boot filesystem reiserfs? or is /boot on
> the reiserfs of
> '/'?
/boot is reiserfs (.5 GB)
/ is reiserfs (7.5 GB)
/home is reiserfs (2 GB)
It is a new SuSE 7.2 installation with YaST on a new EIDE hard drive
(Western Digital 10GB). My assumption is that YaST, in performing the
installation and partitioning of the disk, would have taken care of LILO and
the MBR. Perhaps that is not a correct assumption.
> My suspicion is that whatever you are using for boot (grub
> or lilo) can't
> read your kernel from a reiserfs partition, but I might be
> wrong on that.
LILO. (I guess). Since it doesn't get that far (the boot loader prompt)
before the "Hard Drive Error" message, I thought it would be BIOS, not boot
loader.
So, if I must do an FDISK, is that a Linux utility, or just DOS? I don't
happen to have a submarine disk (DOS BOOT). Is there a SxS that I haven't
found yet on a Linux version?
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