Thank you for your help.
This problem has been solved, as least in a practical sense.
Repeated tries to install Etch had resulted in the boot failing as soon as
grub was called. Attempts to build a system with lilo also failed. The
motherboard (Abit BX133 440BX) has four IDE connectors, allowing 8 drives in
total. My h
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 08:05:06AM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400:
> > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
>
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:21:49 +0300, Andrei Popescu replied:
> > IIRC your /boot partition was pretty big. Would it be ver
On 08/01/2007 07:23 AM, Steve Kleene wrote:
The motherboard (Abit BX133 440BX) has four IDE connectors allowing 8 drives
in total. hda-hdd have a speed of 33 MB/s max. hde-hdh have a speed of 66
MB/s max. So I have always had the two hard drives connected to hde and hdf.
There are no other
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:45:23 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> Here's a fresh start, just to verify that your machine will actually
> boot properly.
Thanks. I'll definitely try this, but probably won't have time until
tomorrow.
> As for the grub-disk, if you mount it you should see a default m
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:19:09PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote:
> [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
>
Here's a fresh start, just to verify that your machine will actually
boot properly.
1. Connect your drives to /dev/hda and /dev/hdc, set the jumpers on
b
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:31:09 -0400, I wrote:
>> Still, I verified that /etc/lilo.conf was there, and there were no grub
>> files anywhere under /target (including under /boot). I finished the
>> installation anyway, and found it totally bizarre when a reboot produced
>> the same output as before,
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400:
> [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:21:49 +0300, Andrei Popescu replied:
> IIRC your /boot partition was pretty big. Would it be very complicated
> to make it something like a few hundred megs (less then
On 07/31/2007 08:31 PM, Steve Kleene wrote:
[...]
Still, I verified that /etc/lilo.conf was there, and there were no grub
files anywhere under /target (including under /boot). I finished the
installation anyway, and found it totally bizarre when a reboot produced
the same output as b
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:31:09PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote:
> In case it's relevant, here's how fdisk showed the filesys in rescue mode:
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hde1 * 1 12 96358+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hde2
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400:
> [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
I've tried the remaining suggestions without luck and am now royally
confused.
1. I installed the grub-disk package and ran the following:
dd if=grub-0.97-i486-pc.ext2fs of=/dev/fd0 bs
On 07/30/2007 09:19 PM, Steve Kleene wrote:
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400:
[I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
I've tried several of the solutions suggested and am still stuck. In the
BIOS, Virus Protection was already disabled, and I tried turning off P
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:19:09PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400:
> > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
>
[... stuff about trying grub and various partition options]
>
> I have not yet tried the suggestion of making a grub disk
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400:
> [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
I've tried several of the solutions suggested and am still stuck. In the
BIOS, Virus Protection was already disabled, and I tried turning off Power
Management. I've tried the different Acc
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400:
> [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:30:41 +, Robert Cates wrote:
> ... I then re-installed Etch (from scratch) with still the same
> problem, until I decided to turn off (disable) the Power Managemen
x27;t already found a solution.
Robert
From: Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: new Etch install fails to boot
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:18:27 +0100
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:07:36 -0400
Steve Kleene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Steve,
&
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:07:36 -0400
Steve Kleene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Steve,
> > Have you tried booting with a noapic option? Older machines
> > sometime require that; Mine does, and it's a similar age to yours.
> I haven't tried this, but I'll look into this and the other
> suggesti
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote:
> [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:01:51 +0100, Brad Rogers replied:
> Have you tried booting with a noapic option? Older machines sometime
> require that; Mine does, and it's a s
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:43:26 -0400
Steve Kleene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Steve,
> I just made a fresh Etch Netinst CD and successfully completed an
> install on a PC that I bought six years ago. When I try to boot,
> this is as far as it gets:
Have you tried booting with a noapic option
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:35:19 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty [sent several helpful
discussions on how to get around the lba problem with grub].
Thanks very much. It make take me a few days to try these, but in any case
I'll report on the outcomes.
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:24:08AM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote:
> > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
>
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:19:40 -0400, From: Douglas Allan Tutty replied:
> > What happens if you reboo
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:28:04PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> If you can, try to get the boot files placed before the 1024th cylinder
> boundary. Sometimes this is at 0.5GB, 2.1GB or 8GB. Try a partition
> layout like so:
>
> /boot (primary #1, 2.1GB)
> / (primary #2, 37.8GB)
> swap (logical #5
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote:
> [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:19:40 -0400, From: Douglas Allan Tutty replied:
> What happens if you reboot the installer in rescue mode and tell it to
> install grub again?
I d
On 07/29/2007 04:43 PM, Steve Kleene wrote:
I just made a fresh Etch Netinst CD and successfully completed an install on
a PC that I bought six years ago. When I try to boot, this is as far as it
gets:
Verifying DMI Pool Data ..
GRUB Loading stage1.5.
Read
It may or may not be re
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote:
> [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
What happens if you reboot the installer in rescue mode and tell it to
install grub again?
Does the box have a floppy and do you have a grub-disk (I've never made
a grub
[I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:56:04 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied:
> Sometimes older bios has a virus protection enabled in the bios itself.
> This does not allow anything to be written to the MBR to protect MBR
> viruses. ... Can you ch
Hi,
Sometimes older bios has a virus protection enabled in the bios itself.
This does not allow anything to be written to the MBR to protect MBR
viruses. I have faced this problem whereby the MBR gets cooked and the
GRUB does not get written properly. Looking at your information it
looks like gr
I just made a fresh Etch Netinst CD and successfully completed an install on
a PC that I bought six years ago. When I try to boot, this is as far as it
gets:
Verifying DMI Pool Data ..
GRUB Loading stage1.5.
Read
It may or may not be relevant to mention an issue I had in the past w
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