Re: New Install Doesn't Boot from HD
Brian C wrote:
Hi,
Just built a new box I'll use as a server at home. On that reboot
during the installation process of Woody, I had to boot from floppy.
I don't think it's a BIOS issue. I had CD, Floppy, HD0 as the boot
order, and even tried HD0, HD1, HD2 and it still wouldn't boot from
the HD. (I have 1 HD as Primary Master and 1 CDRW as Secondary Master
and that's it.) I'm using the Asus A7N8X Mobo.
Perhaps I messed up the partitioning. I did /boot as 16MB at the front
of the drive,
Did you mark it as bootable? Did you install lilo in the mbr (/dev/hda
probably)? Does /etc/lilo.conf point to the correct setup, since you've
got /boot at the beginning instead of /?
a 2GB swap partition next, and then ~120GB as the root filesystem. I
have 1GB RAM, but perhaps a 2GB swap partition is excessive and that
old rule of thumb about swap sizes has outlived its usefulness?
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