RE: lenny won't boot after re-install
Hi again Nuno,
I tried an experiment this morning. I used my ubuntu intrepid livecd and installed it on ty problem system. It installed fine and when I rebooted, it worked just great!
Don't know what was going wrong with the lenny installer that it couldn't install properly, but I will try it again another day.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nuno Magalhães [mailto:nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt]
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 4:43 PM
> To: debian-user
> Subject: Re: lenny won't boot after re-install
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I haven't had that problem before, i can't really help (plus it's a
> friday night and most of the list answers from their work places i
> guess). The only drive that failed on me just became completely
> unusable, period. It would make a snaping sound repeatedly (like
> releasing something that was held by a spring) and the BIOS would
> complain there's no OS to be found.
>
> Does the screen go blank after the POST or is it always blank from the
> second you power on? If the first, well, it could be Debian or could
> be the hard-drive. If the latter then it's most likely the hardware:
> probably the motherboard, or the video card (home desktops aren't
> usually configurable to ignore lack of keyboard/monitor), or...
> something else.
>
> Well, you can't edit the MBR. You do what you tried to do:
> overwrite it.
>
> It may be a silly question, but since liveCDs mount their systems onto
> RAM, i guess you mounted your harddrive's /dev (as in hda or sda), not
> the liveCD's?
>
> > rebooted without the livecd, and nothing. I put my hand on
> the top of the system, and it feels like the hard drive keeps
> searching for something to load. I am wondering if my
> harddrive is failing.
>
> Well if you can mount /dev and all i guess the harddrive isn't really
> failing, otherwise you'd have lots of I/O errors flying around and
> driving your kernel crazy.
>
> Sorry but i'm no Debian guru and i'm not experienced with these
> hardware issues. Maybe linuxquestions.org or some hardware forum might
> be of more use. don't forget to specify the computer hardware.
>
> HTH,
> nuno
>
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