On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:36:47 -0500, Tim Holmes said:
> When I got through the install, it askes me if I want to use Lilo/GRUB.
> I say yes, goes through and askes what partition the MBR would be on, and
> then does something. Takes a minute, harddrve light goes off, and then
> it continues with the last few parts of the install. Makes me think it's
> done what it's supposed to do.
Sure sounds as if it has setup the boot stuff for the hard disk.
>
> The LS-120 are the _NEW_ floppys that will handle floppy discs that are
> a 100 Mb. I have no idea why I got it, I was just like "Hmmm sounds like
> a new toy, why not." I have had no problems with it Windows, it runs
> over IDE so it's much faster then a legacy floppy. But the LS-120 is in
> YODA. And YODA boots with no problem.
> The machine that I kept getting the GRUB prompt in is R2D2. I just built that
> machine right before Chrismtas.
I'm losing track here, same LM version on both YODA and R2D2? yes?
But YODA has LS-120 as a floppy drive.
Are you able to read and write the LS-120?
> It has a legacy floppy, and it takes like 8 minutes, does not give me any
> errors, and then lets the install go on. But the floppy has never worked.
Now that makes me wonder..
You see the floppy disk led light up at all?? Especially at powerup??
Have you got a faulty floppy cable?
Is it seated correctly?
Is the floppy driver faulty?
Got a neighbour who'll let you swap out his/her FDD for an hour or so?
> I was so pissed at one point, I tried to make it a dual boot, to get it to
> work. In Windows the floppy works, I could create a boot disk and then
> fdisk /mbr the hard drive. I haven't tried to make a boot disc in R2D2
> since I finally got Mandrake installed on it.
But as I understand it's R2D2 with the grub/lilo problem
As you say next para, R2D2 is on the network, can you see it's entire
filesystem?
If so, what's the contend of /boot ? is there a grub subdirectory? What's
in there??
> I'm just glad that R2D2 is on the "network" and is running Linux. But took
> me almost a month to get Mandrake on there.
> I've tried RedHATE, SuSE,
> Caldera, OpenBSD, TurboLinux (Which hung at a GRUB prompt too.), and Mandrake.
I'm intrigued that another distribution also did this..
> Of all of them I like Mandrake the most. SuSE had a billion windows managers
> and some kewl looking appz, but was high maint. and didn't really use the same
> architecture. No slocate to update the locate, not to mention it's a good
> 10-12 GB install!
My experience is Mandrake only, 12 yaers ago it was Sco Xenix on Altos
machines
> I'm thinking it might be my MB. Never heard of this problem any other time,
> but I don't know exactly how to prove that hypothesis wrong or right. I mean
> I could gut YODA, put R2D2's hardware in it, and go from there, but that's just
> way too much work!
You may be right about the mobo, but check those cables too, and try the
swapout
of the floppy drives if you can.
I'm echoing this to the list as well seems the reply to: is still broken
cheers
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