-----Original Message----- From: Joel N. Weber II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Friday, November 21, 1997 2:37 PM Subject: crash at partition check during boot
>I am attempting to get a debian rescue disk to boot. The disk seems to boot >fine when tried on another machine. I've also tried writing the same image >to a different floppy, and that does not change the error. > >The machine crashes when after saying `partition check' and then `hda:'. >If I specify `hda=noprobe', the machine boots fine but does not see the >first hard drive. (It does seem to see hdb.) > >hda has been repartitioned in DOS fdisk and OS fdisk and then low-level >formatted; none of these things seem to prevent linux from crashing. > >This is the standard boot disk image downloaded a few weeks ago; the kernel >version is 2.0.29-7. > >I suppose I could continue using hda=noprobe, but I'd hate to lose the 500 MB >had and have to use only the 300 MB hdb. > >Do you have any suggestions as to what I could try to fix this problem? > > Remove hdb. Remove hda and move hdb to hda. Swap hda and hdb. Try hda in another machine. Boot dos(ick!), run FDISK, then run FDISK /MBR. Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the H323 effort. Email http://www.debian.org - Get Your Own Linux! [EMAIL PROTECTED] with http://wwp.mirabilis.com/3375265 - Page Me the word subscribe in the body. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
