Bug#28201: boot floppies for 2.0 do not make system bootable
Wading through old bugs...
Duncan Thomson wrote:
> i have tried to install debian 2.0 on a client's machine, and all goes
> well until i make the system bootable from the hard disk.
>
> when rebooted, the system print 1FA: and will not proceed further.
That's a default boot manager, please check out
http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Tips+Tricks/1fa.html
> the system uses an AHA2940 SCSI controller, and the root partition is
> the first of the SCSI disk. this partition *has* been made bootable,
> and i've tried the `linear' option of lilo, to no avail.
>
> since i don't have direct access to the machine, i can't try just
> any change right away, but i will try the most recent slink
> boot-floppies on wednesday, and can report back on results.
>
> i hope this problem can be corrected before 2.1 release.
aph wrote:
> We believe this problem was a syslinux problem which was fixed
> a while ago. Unfortunately, confusing the issue is the fact that
> the AHA2940 controller triggers bugs in the kernel-image-2.0.36
> package (already reported many times), but that's a different
> story.
I wonder how this can be a bug in syslinux? Apparently either
no lilo was installed in the MBR (maybe not requested) or the
partition to be booted from wasn't marked bootable.
Regards,
Joey
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