On Tuesday 14 June 2005 11:51, J.A. de Vries wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I used the latest netinstall iso to install sarge on a new > system. The installation itself seemed to go smoothly, but when the > moment came to reboot nothing happened. The system did reboot but it > didn't find a boot device on hd0. It just hangs and asks "Reboot and > Select propper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device > and press key". I suspected something went wrong when writing the MBR to > the disk (the primary master hda), so I tried to install again. Alas, > that gave no improvement. The sytem doesn't report any errors, it just > sits there and waits (obviously, since it can't find a bootable > device...) > > Anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed? > > System specs: > MoBo: ASUS A8V Deluxe > CPU: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+ > RAM: 2GB > HDD: 2x SAMSUNG SP1614N (160GB) > DVD: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1912 > > Any help would be appreciated very much! > > Grx HdV > > P.S. Just to exclude the possibility of write errors I did check the MD5 > checksum on the ISO, but it was OK. > > P.P.S. Using an Ubuntu Live disk I found that a seemingly complete > install was put on the harddisk. So most probably it is just a MBR > problem...
You probably just need to re-run LILO. Us old-timers who are used to compiling kernels, we've all made that mistake often enough that it's no big deal, and we know the drill. Boot with a CD, and type "linux root=/dev/hda1" at the prompt. This will use the CD's bootstrap loader, but the / directory will be whatever you specified. You can type "mount" anyway just to make sure. Now check your lilo.conf and, once you're sure it is correct, run "/sbin/lilo" to recreate the master boot record. If it doesn't like hda1, then try sda1 -- both at the boot prompt and in lilo.conf. -- AJS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
