On (21/04/05 11:21), Thomas Steffen wrote: > On 4/21/05, Lars Schimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I took the sid installer, btw. > > But it couldn't install lilo or grub on my SATA HD on the asus A8NV nforce4 > > board. And without a bootloader linux won't start... > > Weird. You could partition, format and mount the HD fine from the > installer? What where the error messages given by grub and lilo? They > should appear one one of the virtual consoles, just try ALT-F2 or > ALT-F3, where it gets you there (ALT-F1 brings you back to the > installer). > > In my experience, grub often does not give a very clear problem > description, and it also likes to hang for a few minutes. But Lilo is > usually very fast and to the point. It may be that your partition > table is corrupt, and Lilo doesn't dare to change anything. > > As a last resort: have you tried making a floppy boot disk? It is a > long time since I have done that, and I don't know whether the kernel > still fits on a floppy, but it is rather reliable way of getting a > system booted. Grab a copy of Debian from scratch: http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/
Once you boot off it, you're in grub and you can boot your system. Everyone should keep a copy handy - it's a rescue disk and live system ;) Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
