Re: Unable to boot from HD - or make boot floppy

[Daniel Miller <dmiller@amfes.com>]

Pedro M. wrote:

> Daniel Miller wrote:
>
> > Hullo the group!
> >
> > I've a got machine that I've been fighting with to make a usable 
> > router.  Debian Woody installed just dandy - but I cannot get it to 
> > boot using either LILO or GRUB - I get errors going to stage 1.5 from 
> > GRUB and LILO usually hangs up with L0 L0 L0, etc.
> >
> > I'm assuming this is a hard drive / bios problem - I've used cfdisk 
> > to eliminate all partitions, started from scratch, and same mproblem.
> >
> > So I gave up on that and tried to make a boot floppy.  But I can't 
> > seem to create an boot floppy that uses the new initrd kernels (and I 
> > really want to use 2.6).  Can someone give this bonehead some 
> > pointers please?
> >
> > Daniel
> If its' a USB HD you can see 
> http://www.freewebs.com/tsj/bootingUSB_ldp_v0.1.htm
>
> Regards.
Not USB - plain old IDE.

Daniel