Re: [Unattended] NTLDR not found after reboot
Uff ... now it worked, after I * deleted all disk related parameters from site/unattended.txt [_meta] section, * booted with a win95/2 boot disk, * ran fdisk to build a primary fat32 partition, * rebooted, * did the format c: /s by myself , and * answered continue/no to the partitioning/formatting questions in the startup dialog. - Jo --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] NTLDR not found after reboot
When starting with the linux boot disk, on some machine the installation process hangs copying the os files and the first reboot with NTLDR not found A message before said *** Found no legacy BIOS data. Probably no big deal. Continuing. The disk is an old Fujitsu M1638TAU 2,5 GB. Is there a way to tell the program about disk geometry? And what data does it exactly need? - Jo --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] NTLDR not found after reboot
jo / ak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When starting with the linux boot disk, on some machine the installation process hangs copying the os files and the first reboot with NTLDR not found A message before said *** Found no legacy BIOS data. Probably no big deal. Continuing. The disk is an old Fujitsu M1638TAU 2,5 GB. Is there a way to tell the program about disk geometry? And what data does it exactly need? It needs the geometry of the drive from the BIOS's point of view. You might be able to learn this by entering the system's BIOS utility. You can certainly learn it by booting to DOS and running fdisk /info /tech. We normally determine the geometry automatically by asking the Linux EDD module, which has code to query the BIOS for this information. But if your BIOS is too old, then this does not work. The geometry is the cylinder/heads/sector count. You pass these to our Linux kernel by pressing Shift while booting (to get the boot: prompt), then typing: unattended hda=1024,240,63 ...or whatever the cylinder,head,sector values are. Note that DOS fdisk may be off by one in its display of the head and/or sector counts. It's a long story... If this is a one-off installation, you can use DOS fdisk to create the 4000M FAT32 partition, boot the Linux boot disk, and tell it to leave the existing partition table alone. - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] NTLDR not found after reboot
Thanks for your hints. You are right, the Bios is pretty old (Award 4.51PG of 1995). fdisk /info /tech worked with the Freedos fdisk (not with the MS-DOS 6.22 or Win95/2 fdisk). Unfortunataly it reported slightly other values than the bios (620/127/63 vs. 622/128/63). I tried both ways: 1) Letting parted write the mbr it figured out (same as bios) 2) Partitioning the disk with (first freedos, then Win95/2) fdisk as you described without mbr rewrite. In both cases I used the linux boot prompt with unattended hda=622/128/63 and answered continue/ignore to the question about the different partitioning schemes. None of this worked for me. Is there something else I could try? - Jo You can certainly learn it by booting to DOS and running fdisk /info /tech. We normally determine the geometry automatically by asking the Linux EDD module, which has code to query the BIOS for this information. But if your BIOS is too old, then this does not work. The geometry is the cylinder/heads/sector count. You pass these to our Linux kernel by pressing Shift while booting (to get the boot: prompt), then typing: unattended hda=1024,240,63 ...or whatever the cylinder,head,sector values are. Note that DOS fdisk may be off by one in its display of the head and/or sector counts. It's a long story... If this is a one-off installation, you can use DOS fdisk to create the 4000M FAT32 partition, boot the Linux boot disk, and tell it to leave the existing partition table alone. - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
