I havent been following this thread but i thought i'd ask. 1) is the partition you installed to/boot from marked as ACTIVE 2) is the partition you installed to/trying to boot from a PRIMARY partition 3) what do you see when you try to boot ? (exactly) 4) does the partition that you are booting off of extend past the 1024 cylinder barrier? does your bios/mb support booting beyond this ?
sorry if u have answered these before, but like i said i havent been following :/ nate On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Matthew Denson wrote: mdenso >All right. mdenso > mdenso >Still not working. I am well into the learning as I go mode. mdenso > mdenso >I've installed slink a couple times now. With different sized partitions, mdenso >I've made the change Jens recommends below and still no change. When I mdenso >reinstalled slink the script was still unhappy about my drive but I could mdenso >use cfdisk manually in a shell. mdenso > mdenso >One new thing. I've been playing with lilo and did a mdenso > mdenso >lilo -P fix mdenso > mdenso >This changed the behavior. Now on boot up I get an L and then a mdenso >never-ending loop printing 40. (Looks like one of the programs you wrote in mdenso >middle school on the TSR-80.) mdenso > mdenso >Does this shed any light? mdenso > mdenso >I've now got DOS installed and get the same results at boot-up. mdenso > mdenso >Thanks for your help. mdenso > mdenso >Matthew Denson mdenso > mdenso >-----Original Message----- mdenso >From: Jens B. Jorgensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdenso >Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 2:14 PM mdenso >To: Matthew Denson mdenso >Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org mdenso >Subject: Re: Can not boot from HD after install mdenso > mdenso > mdenso >In your lilo.conf change: mdenso > mdenso >boot=/dev/hda2 mdenso > mdenso >to: mdenso > mdenso >boot=/dev/hda mdenso > mdenso >That should work. mdenso > mdenso >Matthew Denson wrote: mdenso > mdenso >> OK here are the files. mdenso >> mdenso >> /etc/lilo.conf mdenso >> -------------- mdenso >> boot=/dev/hda2 mdenso >> root=/dev/hda2 mdenso >> install=/boot/boot.b mdenso >> map=/boot/map mdenso >> vga=normal mdenso >> delay=20 mdenso >> image=/vmlinuz mdenso >> label=Linux mdenso >> read-only mdenso >> mdenso >> Partition Table for /dev/hda mdenso >> ---------------------------- mdenso >> ---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of mdenso >> # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors mdenso >> -- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------- --------- mdenso >> 1 0x00 0 1 781 0x82 31 63 788 1574496 16128 mdenso >> 2 0x80 1 1 0 0x83 31 63 780 63 1574433 mdenso >> 3 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0 mdenso >> 4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0 mdenso >> mdenso >> Thanks. mdenso >> Matthew Denson mdenso >> mdenso >> -----Original Message----- mdenso >> From: Jens B. Jorgensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdenso >> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 10:34 AM mdenso >> To: Matthew Denson mdenso >> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org mdenso >> Subject: Re: Can not boot from HD after install mdenso >> mdenso >> What's the contents of your /etc/lilo.conf? Do you have boot=/dev/hda? Why mdenso >> not also mdenso >> send us a printout of the partition setup from (c)fdisk. Do you have the mdenso >> bootable flag mdenso >> set on /dev/hda2? mdenso >> mdenso >> Matthew Denson wrote: mdenso >> mdenso >> > I posted this to the newsgroup linux.debian.user yesterday. But now I'm mdenso >> > subscribed to this list. I apologize if you've seen this before. mdenso >> > ---- mdenso >> > Good evening all, mdenso >> > mdenso >> > I have just completed the installation of Debian/Linux 2.1 on my old mdenso >> Compaq mdenso >> > laptop. When I finished it would not boot from the hard drive. The error mdenso >I mdenso >> > got was mdenso >> > mdenso >> > Non-System disk or disk error mdenso >> > Replace and press any key when ready mdenso >> > mdenso >> > I insert the Boot Floppy and it boots fine (albeit real slow). Could mdenso >> > someone give me a remedy to this? mdenso >> > mdenso >> > More detailed info: mdenso >> > This computer has a retrofitted ~800 MB hard drive and in it's previous mdenso >> > incarnation (up until last night) it was a DOS machine which had the mdenso >> > On-Track Disk Manager software installed to translate the big disk for mdenso >> DOS. mdenso >> > mdenso >> > The debian installation balked at the partition step, it said the disk mdenso >was mdenso >> > factory fresh or screwed up. I assumed it might be the Disk Manager mdenso >> > partition voodoo, so... mdenso >> > mdenso >> > I did not have the disk for Disk Manager so I did not properly uninstall mdenso >> it, mdenso >> > but rather simply repartitioned the drive with DOS fdisk. mdenso >> > mdenso >> > Same message from the installation program so I shelled out and ran mdenso >cfdisk mdenso >> > directly. This worked great. I partitioned the drive the way I wanted mdenso >with mdenso >> > a ~768MB hda2 at the beginning of the drive and a ~8MB swap hda1 at the mdenso >> end. mdenso >> > mdenso >> > The rest of the installation script went smoothly until the reboot when mdenso >I mdenso >> > discovered the above. mdenso >> > mdenso >> > I have a nagging suspicion that the hda2 needs to be reduced or that the mdenso >> > boot record still has the Disk Manager strap in it. I'm going to set it mdenso >> > aside in case I have to start over. mdenso >> > mdenso >> > Any guidance would be appreciated. mdenso >> > mdenso >> > TTFN, mdenso >> > Matthew Denson mdenso >> > mdenso >> > -- mdenso >> > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < mdenso >> /dev/null mdenso >> mdenso >> -- mdenso >> Jens B. Jorgensen mdenso >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mdenso >> mdenso >> -- mdenso >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < mdenso >/dev/null mdenso > mdenso >-- mdenso >Jens B. 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