Re: [leaf-user] Re: IDE install with linux?

[Charles Steinkuehler]

 On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 10:08, Zachariah Mully wrote:
  Hello all-
  I am having a rather baffling problem with installing WISP/Bearing
on
  to a 1.0G IDE harddrive. The funny thing is, I can get the drive to
work
  if I partition it and format it in Windows, but I can't get it to
work
 snip

 Well, I ended up using Free FDISK to put a DOS MBR on the drive, as I
 couldn't get the win98 fdisk to put a new MBR on the hard drive
 (strange). snip Oh well. Chalk it up to BillG and the hard drive
 kieretsu's.

If you're using Win98 or later, you have to lock the disk before you can
successfully replace the MBR, using M$ tools...from my Hard-Disk-HOWTO:

2) If you are running from a windows 95/98 startup disk, you have to run
'lock' to allow low-level access to the hard drive.  If you do not do
this, syslinux will be unable to install the boot loader on the hard
disk, and you will be unable to boot.  You can skip this step if you are
running a 'real' version of dos instead of a windows startup disk.

Charles Steinkuehler
http://lrp.steinkuehler.net
http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror)



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Re: [leaf-user] Re: IDE install with linux?

[Zachariah Mully]

On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 09:57, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:

 2) If you are running from a windows 95/98 startup disk, you have to run
 'lock' to allow low-level access to the hard drive.  If you do not do
 this, syslinux will be unable to install the boot loader on the hard
 disk, and you will be unable to boot.  You can skip this step if you are
 running a 'real' version of dos instead of a windows startup disk.

I knew that was the case when running windows (perhaps also the reason
why the win98 fdisk that I copied on to a win98 boot floppy refused to
/MBR the hdd), but the original problem was why the linux version of
syslinux when installed on the hdd wouldn't boot it... I don't run
windows anymore (switched my desktop to Redhat, Gnome and evolution
about a year ago) so breaking my Windowsless streak sucked ;)

Z



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