Re: Boot disk quit working after second install
A common cause of this problem is that the floppy drive may be of the newer ATAPI type common to newer laptops especially, as constrasted to the older /dev/fd0 floppy type. The install kernels come with ide-floppy support needed for ATAPI compiled in, but the kernel installed has ide-floppy service through a ide-floppy module. There are three workarounds. 1) During your 2nd install boot, use the original install disk with rescue root=/dev/hd(your linux partition). Read the documentation on your rescue disk. 2) After you've completed an install, compile a kernel from source with ide-floppy compiled into the kernel, as opposed to a module. Copy this kernel to /boot/vmlinuz, and run mkboot, which expects a /boot/vmlinuz to make a new bootdisk specific for that partition. 3) install the mkrboot-.deb package, which will provide you with numerous other options for boot disk making. MarvS
Re: Boot disk quit working after second install
Lehel Bernadt wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote: Hello, I have a 6 gig hard drive with debian on the first 4 gigs. I installed an old SUSE last night on the last 2 gigs in order to try out MySQL which allegedly came with that distribution. I boot debian with a boot disk as I have, sigh, Windows on another drive and I had a scary experience once with LILO that I don't care to repeat. Now I can't boot anything on my Linux drive. My boot disk (and backup boot disks) runs in the A drive but windows 95 starts right up each time. What kind of boot disk do you have : ext2+lilo, fat+syslinux, loadlin or just the raw kernel ? What is its configuration ? I understand that you use the same disk for debian suse. How did you altered the config to boot suse instead of debian ? U. . .. I don't know. It was a boot disk I made during the install. I seem to recall seeing loadlin come up but I confess I didn't pay that much attention when it was booting. When I booted my computer some text would come up with the word boot and almost immediately it would say booting the kernel or something like that, then it would scroll through the various drives and so forth and then I would be in Debian, and it would ask for login password. I hope you can help with this. Erik
Re: Boot disk quit working after second install
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote: Lehel Bernadt wrote: What kind of boot disk do you have : ext2+lilo, fat+syslinux, loadlin or just the raw kernel ? What is its configuration ? I understand that you use the same disk for debian suse. How did you altered the config to boot suse instead of debian ? U. . .. I don't know. It was a boot disk I made during the install. I seem to recall seeing loadlin come up but I confess I didn't pay that much attention when it was booting. When I booted my computer some text would come up with the word boot and almost immediately it would say booting the kernel or something like that, then it would scroll through the various drives and so forth and then I would be in Debian, and it would ask for login password. If this is the disk you've created when installing debian, then it is syslinux. You can check the disk from dos (because it's a fat fs). There should be a file named ldlinux.sys. The config file is syslinux.cfg. It has a line like : APPEND root=/dev/hda2 ro This tells the kernel from what partition to mount the root fs. If you haven't modified the config file, I really don't know how gets windows loaded. Maybe you should check the disk with scandisk.
Boot disk quit working after second install
Hello, I have a 6 gig hard drive with debian on the first 4 gigs. I installed an old SUSE last night on the last 2 gigs in order to try out MySQL which allegedly came with that distribution. I boot debian with a boot disk as I have, sigh, Windows on another drive and I had a scary experience once with LILO that I don't care to repeat. Now I can't boot anything on my Linux drive. My boot disk (and backup boot disks) runs in the A drive but windows 95 starts right up each time. Seems like probably whenever I attempt to boot it tries and fails to startup SUSE, perhaps because it is too far out in my hard drive? Any suggestions what to do or which HOW-TO to read would be appreciated. I don't care about the SUSE but would sort of like to get my Debian back! It's an antique Cyrix 686. Thanks very much. Erik Ryberg
Re: Boot disk quit working after second install
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote: Hello, I have a 6 gig hard drive with debian on the first 4 gigs. I installed an old SUSE last night on the last 2 gigs in order to try out MySQL which allegedly came with that distribution. I boot debian with a boot disk as I have, sigh, Windows on another drive and I had a scary experience once with LILO that I don't care to repeat. Now I can't boot anything on my Linux drive. My boot disk (and backup boot disks) runs in the A drive but windows 95 starts right up each time. What kind of boot disk do you have : ext2+lilo, fat+syslinux, loadlin or just the raw kernel ? What is its configuration ? I understand that you use the same disk for debian suse. How did you altered the config to boot suse instead of debian ? Seems like probably whenever I attempt to boot it tries and fails to startup SUSE, perhaps because it is too far out in my hard drive? When you use a boot disk, there should be no concern about a too big drive (the INT13 limit applies only when booting the kernel from the HDD)
