Re: Major problems booting Debian 2.2 - Nothing works
Hi Len:
Don't know if what happened to me applies to you as
I used the harddrive method in my recent install, but
when I got to the point where I needed to show where
the files were on the harddrive I could not get automount
to see it. I did a soft reboot and it then saw them.
HTH Dean
----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Cheatham" <len_cheatham@hotmail.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 10:29 PM
Subject: Major problems booting Debian 2.2 - Nothing works
> I cannot get Debian 2.2 to boot up. I tried the following 2 methods, to no
avail:
> ATTEMPT #1:
> After downloading the CD from the Debian site, I burned a CD for Disk #1
and placed that in the CD drive. I booted the computer, and after going
through all the install screens, Debian said that it couldn't find the path
to my archives. I double-checked the path to the "rescue.bin" file, and it
was entered correctly. I could not get past these screens. Two other people
here at work tried it, too, with no success.
> ATTEMPT #2:
> I issued the following commands in an attempt to make a Rescue Diskette
and a Root Diskette.
> mount /mnt/floppy
> cd
/mnt/cdrom/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.20.0.1-2000-12-03/images-1.44
> dd if=rescue.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024
> I issued the following command to make sure that the file copied
correctly:
> cmp /dev/fd0 rescue.bin
> I tried to boot from this floppy, but the computerjust sat there, with a
blank screen and a prompt, doing nothing. No lights were blinking,
indicating no activity on the hard drive or the diskette drive.
> The BIOS is set to boot in the following order:
> 1) diskette
> 2) CD-ROM
> 3) Hard drive
> What can I do to get Debian to boot on my system?
> Len Cheatham
>
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