Cannot boot off hardrive and help?
I cannot boot from my harddrive. I made sure the root partition is bootable according to fdisk. This is a new Debian install using potato disks. I can boot (slow) from a diskette. Any ideas? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.eleceng.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 021-6502816 (c) 082-928-3692 /--/
Re: Cannot boot off hardrive and help?
To quote Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED], # I cannot boot from my harddrive. I made sure the root partition is # bootable according to fdisk. This is a new Debian install using potato # disks. I can boot (slow) from a diskette. The error you get when trying to boot off the harddrive would be useful. Otherwise, my guess would be that you havn't installed LILO or GRUB. They're both what are called boot loaders. They take on the task of booting a kernel or OS, and passing any appropriate parameters to the aforementioned kernel or OS. Neither are particularily easy to set up; check out the HOWTOs available at www.linuxdocs.org . David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
Re: Cannot boot off hardrive and help?
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, David B. Harris wrote: To quote Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED], # I cannot boot from my harddrive. I made sure the root partition is # bootable according to fdisk. This is a new Debian install using potato # disks. I can boot (slow) from a diskette. The error you get when trying to boot off the harddrive would be useful. All the computer says is: Searching for Boot Record from IDE-0... and it never finds it so it goes thru other options such as CD and Floppy. Otherwise, my guess would be that you havn't installed LILO or GRUB. They're both what are called boot loaders. They take on the task of booting a kernel or OS, and passing any appropriate parameters to the aforementioned kernel or OS. No I have installed LILO. I have used lilo since I got to know Linux which was around 1994. I thought of installing grub but I do not know how it works. The problem seems to be much earlier. My hard drive is 15GB. Neither are particularily easy to set up; check out the HOWTOs available at www.linuxdocs.org . Thank you, /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.eleceng.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 021-6502816 (c) 082-928-3692 /--/
Re: Cannot boot off hardrive and help?
To quote Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED], # All the computer says is: # Searching for Boot Record from IDE-0... # # and it never finds it so it goes thru other options such as CD and Floppy. This confirms what I originally thought; the MBR hasn't been written(this is done by either LILO, GRUB, or any other boot loader). # No I have installed LILO. I have used lilo since I got to know Linux which # was around 1994. I thought of installing grub but I do not know how it # works. The problem seems to be much earlier. My hard drive is 15GB. Oh, that makes things extremely odd. In that case, double-check that /etc/lilo.conf is correct, and then run 'lilo'. Does it give you any errors? David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
Re: Cannot boot off hardrive and help?
Send (attach) your lilo.conf file in /etc/ and perhaps we can see what is wrong. Once repaired, you can simply re-run lilo and it will configure the mbr to boot any OS's you want to run from your hard drive. tatah On Sunday 04 February 2001 17:59, David B. Harris wrote: To quote Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED], # All the computer says is: # Searching for Boot Record from IDE-0... # # and it never finds it so it goes thru other options such as CD and Floppy. This confirms what I originally thought; the MBR hasn't been written(this is done by either LILO, GRUB, or any other boot loader). # No I have installed LILO. I have used lilo since I got to know Linux which # was around 1994. I thought of installing grub but I do not know how it # works. The problem seems to be much earlier. My hard drive is 15GB. Oh, that makes things extremely odd. In that case, double-check that /etc/lilo.conf is correct, and then run 'lilo'. Does it give you any errors? David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.) -- Jaye Inabnit, ARS ke6sls e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707-442-6579 h/m 707-268-4074 http://www.qsl.net/ke6slsICQ# 12741145 This mail composed with kmail on kde on X on linux warped by debian If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid.
