RE: Can not boot from HD after install
I havent been following this thread but i thought i'd ask.
1) is the partition you installed to/boot from marked as ACTIVE
2) is the partition you installed to/trying to boot from a PRIMARY
partition
3) what do you see when you try to boot ? (exactly)
4) does the partition that you are booting off of extend past the 1024
cylinder barrier? does your bios/mb support booting beyond this ?
sorry if u have answered these before, but like i said i havent been
following :/
nate
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Matthew Denson wrote:
mdenso >All right.
mdenso >
mdenso >Still not working. I am well into the learning as I go mode.
mdenso >
mdenso >I've installed slink a couple times now. With different sized partitions,
mdenso >I've made the change Jens recommends below and still no change. When I
mdenso >reinstalled slink the script was still unhappy about my drive but I could
mdenso >use cfdisk manually in a shell.
mdenso >
mdenso >One new thing. I've been playing with lilo and did a
mdenso >
mdenso >lilo -P fix
mdenso >
mdenso >This changed the behavior. Now on boot up I get an L and then a
mdenso >never-ending loop printing 40. (Looks like one of the programs you wrote in
mdenso >middle school on the TSR-80.)
mdenso >
mdenso >Does this shed any light?
mdenso >
mdenso >I've now got DOS installed and get the same results at boot-up.
mdenso >
mdenso >Thanks for your help.
mdenso >
mdenso >Matthew Denson
mdenso >
mdenso >-----Original Message-----
mdenso >From: Jens B. Jorgensen [mailto:jjorgens@bdsinc.com]
mdenso >Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 2:14 PM
mdenso >To: Matthew Denson
mdenso >Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
mdenso >Subject: Re: Can not boot from HD after install
mdenso >
mdenso >
mdenso >In your lilo.conf change:
mdenso >
mdenso >boot=/dev/hda2
mdenso >
mdenso >to:
mdenso >
mdenso >boot=/dev/hda
mdenso >
mdenso >That should work.
mdenso >
mdenso >Matthew Denson wrote:
mdenso >
mdenso >> OK here are the files.
mdenso >>
mdenso >> /etc/lilo.conf
mdenso >> --------------
mdenso >> boot=/dev/hda2
mdenso >> root=/dev/hda2
mdenso >> install=/boot/boot.b
mdenso >> map=/boot/map
mdenso >> vga=normal
mdenso >> delay=20
mdenso >> image=/vmlinuz
mdenso >> label=Linux
mdenso >> read-only
mdenso >>
mdenso >> Partition Table for /dev/hda
mdenso >> ----------------------------
mdenso >> ---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of
mdenso >> # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors
mdenso >> -- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------- ---------
mdenso >> 1 0x00 0 1 781 0x82 31 63 788 1574496 16128
mdenso >> 2 0x80 1 1 0 0x83 31 63 780 63 1574433
mdenso >> 3 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
mdenso >> 4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
mdenso >>
mdenso >> Thanks.
mdenso >> Matthew Denson
mdenso >>
mdenso >> -----Original Message-----
mdenso >> From: Jens B. Jorgensen [mailto:jjorgens@bdsinc.com]
mdenso >> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 10:34 AM
mdenso >> To: Matthew Denson
mdenso >> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
mdenso >> Subject: Re: Can not boot from HD after install
mdenso >>
mdenso >> What's the contents of your /etc/lilo.conf? Do you have boot=/dev/hda? Why
mdenso >> not also
mdenso >> send us a printout of the partition setup from (c)fdisk. Do you have the
mdenso >> bootable flag
mdenso >> set on /dev/hda2?
mdenso >>
mdenso >> Matthew Denson wrote:
mdenso >>
mdenso >> > I posted this to the newsgroup linux.debian.user yesterday. But now I'm
mdenso >> > subscribed to this list. I apologize if you've seen this before.
mdenso >> > ----
mdenso >> > Good evening all,
mdenso >> >
mdenso >> > I have just completed the installation of Debian/Linux 2.1 on my old
mdenso >> Compaq
mdenso >> > laptop. When I finished it would not boot from the hard drive. The error
mdenso >I
mdenso >> > got was
mdenso >> >
mdenso >> > Non-System disk or disk error
mdenso >> > Replace and press any key when ready
mdenso >> >
mdenso >> > I insert the Boot Floppy and it boots fine (albeit real slow). Could
mdenso >> > someone give me a remedy to this?
mdenso >> >
mdenso >> > More detailed info:
mdenso >> > This computer has a retrofitted ~800 MB hard drive and in it's previous
mdenso >> > incarnation (up until last night) it was a DOS machine which had the
mdenso >> > On-Track Disk Manager software installed to translate the big disk for
mdenso >> DOS.
mdenso >> >
mdenso >> > The debian installation balked at the partition step, it said the disk
mdenso >was
mdenso >> > factory fresh or screwed up. I assumed it might be the Disk Manager
mdenso >> > partition voodoo, so...
mdenso >> >
mdenso >> > I did not have the disk for Disk Manager so I did not properly uninstall
mdenso >> it,
mdenso >> > but rather simply repartitioned the drive with DOS fdisk.
mdenso >> >
mdenso >> > Same message from the installation program so I shelled out and ran
mdenso >cfdisk
mdenso >> > directly. This worked great. I partitioned the drive the way I wanted
mdenso >with
mdenso >> > a ~768MB hda2 at the beginning of the drive and a ~8MB swap hda1 at the
mdenso >> end.
mdenso >> >
mdenso >> > The rest of the installation script went smoothly until the reboot when
mdenso >I
mdenso >> > discovered the above.
mdenso >> >
mdenso >> > I have a nagging suspicion that the hda2 needs to be reduced or that the
mdenso >> > boot record still has the Disk Manager strap in it. I'm going to set it
mdenso >> > aside in case I have to start over.
mdenso >> >
mdenso >> > Any guidance would be appreciated.
mdenso >> >
mdenso >> > TTFN,
mdenso >> > Matthew Denson
mdenso >> >
mdenso >> > --
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mdenso >> jjorgens@bdsinc.com
mdenso >>
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mdenso >--
mdenso >Jens B. Jorgensen
mdenso >jjorgens@bdsinc.com
mdenso >
mdenso >
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