Re: new Etch install fails to boot
Hi,
Sometimes older bios has a virus protection enabled in the bios itself.
This does not allow anything to be written to the MBR to protect MBR
viruses. I have faced this problem whereby the MBR gets cooked and the
GRUB does not get written properly. Looking at your information it
looks like grub is not able to proceed. Can you check your bios once
again and try disabling the virus protection (re-enable it later once
things are working) and re-install the grub and check ?
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 17:43 -0400, Steve Kleene wrote:
> I just made a fresh Etch Netinst CD and successfully completed an install on
> a PC that I bought six years ago. When I try to boot, this is as far as it
> gets:
>
> Verifying DMI Pool Data ..........
> GRUB Loading stage1.5.
> Read
>
> It may or may not be relevant to mention an issue I had in the past with this
> box. I used to run Red Hat on it but with a Windows partition at the start
> of the disk. During the Red Hat installation, I had to select "Force LBA32"
> or it wouldn't find the Linux boot partition.
>
> Now, though, I have given the whole disk to Etch, so I'd be surprised if this
> is the issue. There are just two partitions:
>
> IDE5 master (hde) - 41.2 GB IC35L040AVER07-0
> #1 primary 39.9 GB B f ext3 /
> #5 logical 1.5 GB f swap swap
>
> The BIOS (AWARD 1998 / PCI/PNP 686 / 276079428) shows:
> IDE Primary Master Auto (other choices are None, Manual)
> Access Mode Auto (other choices are Normal, LBA, Large)
>
> I've tried various combinations, including LBA, to no avail. The hard drives
> are IBM Deskstar 40-GB IDE hard drives, model IC35L040AVER07-0.
>
> Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks.
>
>
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Bhasker C V
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The box said "Requires Windows 95, NT, or better", so I installed Linux.
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