On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote Daniel Mashao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # I cannot boot from my harddrive. I made sure the root partition is > # bootable according to fdisk. This is a new Debian install using potato > # disks. I can boot (slow) from a diskette. > > The error you get when trying to boot off the harddrive would be useful. > All the computer says is: Searching for Boot Record from IDE-0...
and it never finds it so it goes thru other options such as CD and Floppy. > Otherwise, my guess would be that you havn't installed LILO or GRUB. > They're both what are called "boot loaders". They take on the task of > booting a kernel or OS, and passing any appropriate parameters to the > aforementioned kernel or OS. No I have installed LILO. I have used lilo since I got to know Linux which was around 1994. I thought of installing grub but I do not know how it works. The problem seems to be much earlier. My hard drive is 15GB. > > Neither are particularily easy to set up; check out the HOWTOs available > at www.linuxdocs.org . Thank you, /------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.eleceng.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 021-6502816 (c) 082-928-3692 /------------------------------------------------------------------------------/