Hi Adam, On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 11:54:24PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org> writes: > > > I got a report forwarded from a german user of the LinuxLand edition > > of Debian r2. He writes that he was unable to get Debian to boot on > > his machine. It turned out that the boot loader was installed on > > the swap partition /dev/hda1 instead of the root partition on /dev/hda2. > > Is the user using any non-linux partitions (esp solaris or *bsd > slices) on his disk? > > I have heard of this happening for another user. > > I would really like to see the results of fdisk -l however, and what > the kernel is reporting during the boot sequence. I just reread the mail (it is in german so will most probably not help you). It does look like a user error now. Obviously the swap partition was marked bootable in cfdisk but I guess dinstall installed LILO into the root partition (which was not activated). That way I assume the old LILO installed there by the SuSE installer was invoked loading the old kernel (which obviously was not overwritten by the installation) booting the Debian partition. Or something like that. Thanks Torsten
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