Re: Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-19 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > You wrote: >>The manual says this: >>() No part of LILO has been loaded. LILO either isn't installed >>or the partition on which its boot sector is located isn't active >> >>I don't know what it means by that except that it sounds like it would >>be important

Re: Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-18 Thread Mike Miller
You wrote: >The manual says this: >() No part of LILO has been loaded. LILO either isn't installed >or the partition on which its boot sector is located isn't active > >I don't know what it means by that except that it sounds like it would >be important if you were putting LILO in a partition

Re: Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-18 Thread destruss
On 18 Aug 2001, at 18:36, Mike Miller wrote: > You wrote: > > I see you have two kernel's, does lilo add both when running lilo? > >I would check cmos settings to see if your computer is set up to > >boot from harddrive. HTH Dean > > I agree that's exactly what it looks like, but the BIOS

Re: Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-18 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Yes, i ran /sbin/lilo after changing lilo.conf and it prints the > message that Linux was added, the master boot record was written. In > particular, the settings i tried playing with were the lba32/linear > options, and adding the hard drive geometry to the file

Re: Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-18 Thread Mike Miller
You wrote: > I see you have two kernel's, does lilo add both when running lilo? >I would check cmos settings to see if your computer is set up to >boot from harddrive. HTH Dean I agree that's exactly what it looks like, but the BIOS is set to boot from floppy, cd, and hard drive. I've also

Re: Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-18 Thread destruss
On 18 Aug 2001, at 17:36, Mike Miller wrote: > > lba32 > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/hda3 > install=/boot/boot.b > map=/boot/map > delay=20 > vga=normal > default=Linux > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-only > image=/vmlinuz.old > label=LinuxOLD > read-only > opti

Re: Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-18 Thread Mike Miller
You wrote: >When you say that you messed around with lilo.conf changing settings, did >you also try doing /sbin/lilo after changing the settings? Did you see >where the label for linux was installed when you ran it? > >I think it might help to see your /etc/lilo.conf and the partition table. I >a

Re: Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-18 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hi, i have a problem booting from my hard drive after installation. > > I've installed the stable release on a clean hard drive, no problems > with installation. If i boot from a floppy or a cd, the filesystem is > intact on the hard drive partitions. The hard