RE: Can not boot from HD after install
OK here are the files.
/etc/lilo.conf
--------------
boot=/dev/hda2
root=/dev/hda2
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
Partition Table for /dev/hda
----------------------------
---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of
# Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors
-- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------- ---------
1 0x00 0 1 781 0x82 31 63 788 1574496 16128
2 0x80 1 1 0 0x83 31 63 780 63 1574433
3 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
Thanks.
Matthew Denson
-----Original Message-----
From: Jens B. Jorgensen [mailto:jjorgens@bdsinc.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 10:34 AM
To: Matthew Denson
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Can not boot from HD after install
What's the contents of your /etc/lilo.conf? Do you have boot=/dev/hda? Why
not also
send us a printout of the partition setup from (c)fdisk. Do you have the
bootable flag
set on /dev/hda2?
Matthew Denson wrote:
> I posted this to the newsgroup linux.debian.user yesterday. But now I'm
> subscribed to this list. I apologize if you've seen this before.
> ----
> Good evening all,
>
> I have just completed the installation of Debian/Linux 2.1 on my old
Compaq
> laptop. When I finished it would not boot from the hard drive. The error I
> got was
>
> Non-System disk or disk error
> Replace and press any key when ready
>
> I insert the Boot Floppy and it boots fine (albeit real slow). Could
> someone give me a remedy to this?
>
> More detailed info:
> This computer has a retrofitted ~800 MB hard drive and in it's previous
> incarnation (up until last night) it was a DOS machine which had the
> On-Track Disk Manager software installed to translate the big disk for
DOS.
>
> The debian installation balked at the partition step, it said the disk was
> factory fresh or screwed up. I assumed it might be the Disk Manager
> partition voodoo, so...
>
> I did not have the disk for Disk Manager so I did not properly uninstall
it,
> but rather simply repartitioned the drive with DOS fdisk.
>
> Same message from the installation program so I shelled out and ran cfdisk
> directly. This worked great. I partitioned the drive the way I wanted with
> a ~768MB hda2 at the beginning of the drive and a ~8MB swap hda1 at the
end.
>
> The rest of the installation script went smoothly until the reboot when I
> discovered the above.
>
> I have a nagging suspicion that the hda2 needs to be reduced or that the
> boot record still has the Disk Manager strap in it. I'm going to set it
> aside in case I have to start over.
>
> Any guidance would be appreciated.
>
> TTFN,
> Matthew Denson
>
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