MBR problems

2007-05-15 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, I work for a very tiny charity. I was given 2 Dell Dimension 1100 computers with Debian installed originally, used as test machines. Their hard drives were wiped on purpose by an external company (long story, that I'm not too fully aware of) and I was told to try and recover

Re: MBR problems

2007-05-15 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 21:53 +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, I work for a very tiny charity. I was given 2 Dell Dimension 1100 computers with Debian installed originally, used as test machines. Their hard drives were wiped on purpose by an external company (long story, that I'm

RE: Infinite sevens: MBR problems

2001-02-08 Thread Peter Howell
@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Infinite sevens: MBR problems On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:18:59PM -0500, Peter Howell wrote: On a side note, I went into the bios and altered the boot order. Now when I boot, it just prints: LI and then stops. From what I've been able to find

Re: Infinite sevens: MBR problems

2001-02-07 Thread Peter Howell
At 03:09 PM 2/6/01 -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Peter Howell wrote: MBR L 07 07 07 07 07 . From lilo's manual: Disk error codes - - - - - - - - If the BIOS signals an error when LILO is trying to load a boot image, the respective error code is displayed. The following BIOS error codes

Re: Infinite sevens: MBR problems

2001-02-07 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:18:59PM -0500, Peter Howell wrote: On a side note, I went into the bios and altered the boot order. Now when I boot, it just prints: LI and then stops. From what I've been able to find, this has to do with problems in the mapping of the

RE: Infinite sevens: MBR problems

2001-02-07 Thread Holp, John Mr.
This is interesting, let us know what works John -Original Message- From: brian moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 12:38 PM To: Debian-User@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Infinite sevens: MBR problems On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:18:59PM -0500, Peter Howell wrote

Infinite sevens: MBR problems

2001-02-06 Thread Peter Howell
I've almost successfully installed the debian base on a pcmcia hard drive in a PC110. I say almost because I can't get it to boot. When I attempt to boot off the HD, I get the following message. MBR L 07 07 07 07 07 . and so on forever. If I hold down space during boot, I get the

Re: Infinite sevens: MBR problems

2001-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
Peter Howell wrote: MBR L 07 07 07 07 07 . From lilo's manual: Disk error codes - - - - - - - - If the BIOS signals an error when LILO is trying to load a boot image, the respective error code is displayed. The following BIOS error codes are known: ... 0x07 Invalid

?? Lilo, Win NT, MBR problems: a catch 22

2000-12-26 Thread DTi4565459
At home I have a laptop where win98 and linux co-exist, with lilo offering to boot either one at startup. But at office, after linux installs lilo to MBR, NT won't boot. So, I went to boot floppy, ran fdisk /mbr; but now machine won't boot linux. Boot floppy won't work for linux either.

Re: ?? Lilo, Win NT, MBR problems: a catch 22

2000-12-26 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At home I have a laptop where win98 and linux co-exist, with lilo offering to boot either one at startup. But at office, after linux installs lilo to MBR, NT won't boot. So, I went to boot floppy, ran fdisk /mbr; but now machine won't boot linux. Boot floppy

Re: ?? Lilo, Win NT, MBR problems: a catch 22

2000-12-26 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At home I have a laptop where win98 and linux co-exist, with lilo offering to boot either one at startup. But at office, after linux installs lilo to MBR, NT won't boot. So, I went to boot floppy, ran fdisk /mbr; but

Re: ?? Lilo, Win NT, MBR problems: a catch 22

2000-12-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 06:25:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At home I have a laptop where win98 and linux co-exist, with lilo offering to boot either one at startup. But at office, after linux installs lilo to MBR, NT won't boot. So, I went to boot floppy, ran fdisk /mbr; but now

Re: ?? Lilo, Win NT, MBR problems: a catch 22

2000-12-26 Thread Nate Amsden
i did this recently, and as a solution i just created a 15MB C: drive for the boot loader(primary partition) then Linux got a /boot partition and NT got it's own primary partition. then i load LILO to the MBR and tell it to boot to C: (which then loads NT's boot loader) to load NT or load linux