bios still sees both drives ... i think the hardware is still working. i re-lilo-ed without success. I still have to boot from the floopy.
what is IIRC? At 26 July 2003, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 19:13, Debian User wrote: >> after bios, i think lilo is not ever run. the bios displays the system >> configuration then the error message: >> >> DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER >> >> my boot sequence is A,C. >IIRC the machine is not seeing the drives properly. Did this happen >after you added the 'backup' drive? Computers use the bios to find the >bootable drive(meaning 'bootable' flag and boot loader), if not found >yours wants a floppy for help which the lilo boot provides. So that >would explain the boot disk working. >> >> the boot floopy i am using is 2.2.20. the machine was booting 2.4. >> 18 ... for months before this problem occured. apparently, i never >> made a boto disk for the 2.4.18 kernel. >> >Not a major problem. This can be fixed after you get this fixed. >> i have not tried re-lilo-ing b/c i am unsure if the problem is a >> bad lilo or not. could this be the problem? >> >I dont think is can hurt, so I think it would be ok. You are only >writing a few bits in a specific place that may have got corrupted. And >you have the boot disk. ><snip> >BUT ON SECOND THOUGHT, >if you set the jumpers on the HD's (single,master,slave) incorrectly. . >that would explain alot.... >not see the drives on bootup, the BIOS os message, not being able to >mount the second drive. >Just a thought.... >-Kev > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian.org > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
