Re: Re: Unable to make Linux bootable from HD or make boot floppy
On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 18:30, Mark Fickett wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> >> I am working on installing Debian 2.2r6 on a Packard Bell
> >> Intel machine, which has a Pheonix BIOS, 23.0MB RAM,
> >
> >23MB RAM? That's odd. Is 1MB "stolen" for the video adapter?
>
> It seems that the 23MB is just for Extended RAM; it's 24MB
> total for System, Extended, and Shadow RAM.
That sounds more like it...
> >> Hard Drive, a 3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive, and a Matsushita
> >>CD-ROM drive
> [...]
> >> When configuring device driver support, I install sbpcd for my
> >> matsushita CD-ROM drive, and have tried also installing
> >
> >Are you sure the matsushita it plugged into the Sound Blaster
> >card?
>
> I haven't any idea if it's plugged into the Sound Blaster card.
> How would I find out?
"Crack" the case and eyeball it. Why did you initially think
to use the sbpcd driver?
[snip]
> >> The drive was giving me problems before (rawrite2.exe gave
>>me "general failure reading drive D" several times, but would
> >>go
> >
> >Drive _D:_??? rawrite2.exe should be writing to A: or B:.
>
> rawrite2.exe was writing to A:, D: was the CD it was reading from.
Duh. My bad.
> >>The partitions are
> >> /hda1, which is 10MB at the beginning of the disk, a Primary >>linux
> >> ex2 partition marked bootable and mounted as boot, /hda2, a
> >> 30MB Primary linux ext2 partition which is root, and a 388MB
> >> Linux Swap partition, also Primary.)
> >
> >This must be changed. On a very small disk like this, try this:
> >hda2: Primary ext2 48MB _at_the_end_of_the_disk_
> >hda1: Primary swap Everything else, and make it bootable...
>
> I've changed that as you recommended.
Good. You noticed that the swap disk is 2x RAM? Thought so...
> >Could the floppy drive be whacked after this long?
>
> I doubt it's whacked; it seems to read perfectly well, and from
> what I can tell was also writing correctly.
That's still part of my earlier "oops".
> I've now retried: I did everything the same as before, except
> with the new paritions. When I try "Make Bootable Directly
> from HD," there is again the LILO failure. When I try "Make
> boot floppy," however, I get something new. It goes to a black
> screen with white text, and says:
Progress!!
> Formatting the floppy...
> Measuring drive 0's raw capacity
> warmup cycle: x 200xxx 200xxx [replaced by 'In order to
> avoid...' and the xs are numbers that change]
> In order to avoid this time consuming measurement in the
> future, add the following line to /etc/driveprm:
> drive0: deviation=720
> CAUTION: This line is drive and controller specific, so
> it should be removed before a new drive 0 or floppy controller.
>
> Formatting/Verifying Cylinder 1-80, head 0/1
If I remember properly, I got the same messages.
> After cylinder 80, it goes back to dbootstrap and shows
> me the "creating filesystem on the floppy..." message,
> and as before fails there, with the "Creation of the boot
> floppy failed. Please make sure that the floppy was not
> write-protected, and that you put it in the first drive.
> Try another floppy if the problem persists." nessage.
> (Just to be sure, I tried, and the boot floppy doesn't
> boot. ::laughs:: ) I also checked Ctrl-Alt-F3, and it has
> the same messages as before, when it didn't write anything
> to the disk, and just failed at creating a filesystem.
Just out of curiosity, are you booting off the CD? I.e.,
how are you booting in the 1st place? The old drives are
_slow_ (4x at MOST) and as Kent West reminds me, are
probably temperamental with CD-Rs as opposed to factory-
burned CDs, and I guarantee you that TuxCD burns CD-Rs.
By any wild chance, is there a network card in the box, and
are you connected via broadband internet? Network
installation is really easy...
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