Re: Boot failure after install (continuous 01 01 01...)

2003-08-29 Thread dann frazier 
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 08:01:55AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
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 On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:45:06PM +0200, Ferry van Genderen wrote:
  thank you for your quick response! I suspect that grub is also a 'boot 
  manager', is it included on the Debian cd? if so, do you know how I can 
  install it?
 
 Yes, grub is an alternative boot loader for i386.
 
  Can it be done in the installer, or do I have to make a boot floppy and 
  than reboot and perform some action?
 
 You'll need to boot from the floppy you created during
 installation or the rescue disk and install the grub package.

fyi, someone posted a good grub on debian howto on debianplanet a while back:
  http://debianplanet.org/node.php?id=840


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Re: Boot failure after install (continuous 01 01 01...)

2003-08-28 Thread Matt Kraai 
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:21:38PM +0200, Ferry van Genderen wrote:
 I have just installed Debian from the 3.0 Woody cd iso that I have 
 downloaded. After the kernel (2.4) is installed, the installer allows me to 
 reboot. I then see the regular bios messages, and then the screen keeps 
 filling with 01 01 01 01 01 01 etc, it just keeps echo'ing these chars 
 until eternity.. (well , maybe not that long, but I didn't want to check 
 :-).
 
 My system details:
 PIII-450/256Mb
 Adaptec 2940 SCSI-U2W
 9Gb SCSI Quantum Atlas IV harddisk
 Plextor 40x SCSI CD-ROM
 Plextor 8X SCSI CD-Writer
 Hitachi 80Gb IDE harddisk (but set into 32Gb compatibility mode, otherwise 
 the bios can't handle it)
 
 With the Debian installer, I partitioned the Hitachi harddisk into a 4Gb 
 Linux bootable partition, a 512 Linux swap partition, and two Linux 
 partions to fill the rest.
 The SCSI hardisk contains one 9Gb NTFS partition with WinXP installed.
 
 The installer can install from the scsi cd-rom, and it's partition program 
 can see the scsi hardisk and correctly identified the partition as NTFS, so 
 I guess scsi isn't the cause of the problem.
 The installer also detected the bootable partition on the scsi disk and 
 asked me if I wanted to include it into the boot-menu, which I wanted so I 
 told it to go ahead.
 
 After the reboot, the system boots normally when I setup the bios into 
 SCSI-IDE boot order, but when I change the boot order to IDE-SCSI, the 
 system 'hangs' and keeps printing '01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01', it just 
 keeps running and running...
 
 I really appreciate any help I can get, I'm sure you all understand I don't 
 really want to have to move back to windows...

Please see

 http://www.ipcop.org/1.3.0/en/install/html/LILO-errors.html

In particular, in section B.1.2:

 0x01

  Illegal command.  This shouldn't happen, but if it does, it
  may indicated an attempt to access a disk which is not supported
  by the BIOS.

Maybe grub will work better?

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Re: Boot failure after install (continuous 01 01 01...)

2003-08-28 Thread Matt Kraai 
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:45:06PM +0200, Ferry van Genderen wrote:
 thank you for your quick response! I suspect that grub is also a 'boot 
 manager', is it included on the Debian cd? if so, do you know how I can 
 install it?

Yes, grub is an alternative boot loader for i386.

 Can it be done in the installer, or do I have to make a boot floppy and 
 than reboot and perform some action?

You'll need to boot from the floppy you created during
installation or the rescue disk and install the grub package.

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Matt


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