What's the contents of your /etc/lilo.conf? Do you have boot=/dev/hda? Why not also send us a printout of the partition setup from (c)fdisk. Do you have the bootable flag set on /dev/hda2?
Matthew Denson wrote: > I posted this to the newsgroup linux.debian.user yesterday. But now I'm > subscribed to this list. I apologize if you've seen this before. > ---- > Good evening all, > > I have just completed the installation of Debian/Linux 2.1 on my old Compaq > laptop. When I finished it would not boot from the hard drive. The error I > got was > > Non-System disk or disk error > Replace and press any key when ready > > I insert the Boot Floppy and it boots fine (albeit real slow). Could > someone give me a remedy to this? > > More detailed info: > This computer has a retrofitted ~800 MB hard drive and in it's previous > incarnation (up until last night) it was a DOS machine which had the > On-Track Disk Manager software installed to translate the big disk for DOS. > > The debian installation balked at the partition step, it said the disk was > factory fresh or screwed up. I assumed it might be the Disk Manager > partition voodoo, so... > > I did not have the disk for Disk Manager so I did not properly uninstall it, > but rather simply repartitioned the drive with DOS fdisk. > > Same message from the installation program so I shelled out and ran cfdisk > directly. This worked great. I partitioned the drive the way I wanted with > a ~768MB hda2 at the beginning of the drive and a ~8MB swap hda1 at the end. > > The rest of the installation script went smoothly until the reboot when I > discovered the above. > > I have a nagging suspicion that the hda2 needs to be reduced or that the > boot record still has the Disk Manager strap in it. I'm going to set it > aside in case I have to start over. > > Any guidance would be appreciated. > > TTFN, > Matthew Denson > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
