Am Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2001 12:35 schrieb Russell Coker: > On Wednesday 30 May 2001 11:45, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > > Well, the lilo.conf i sent was just the last configuration I tried, > > > before that I also tried boot=/dev/hda! > > > > Well, you now have a LILO mbr at /dev/hda, so debian mbr is not there at > > all, if you want to put it back you can try to use install-mbr /dev/hda > > I'm almost positive that Debian's mbr will work as expected, not so sure > > about LILO if as you said there is an incompatibility issue, but > > installing Debian mbr may help your BIOS allow you to boot from HD again. >
No, it did not! :-( I now tried to install debina-mbr on /dev/hda and lilo on /dev/hda2, nothing! The output of dd .... is added to this mail again. > Here is the relevant compatibility code relating to boot-compat.b. The > sole difference between boot-compat.b and boot.b is that boot-compat.b is > produced with BROKEN_BIOS_COMPATIBILITY defined (so it won't boot NT4). > > _main: > #ifndef BROKEN_BIOS_COMPATIBILITY > cli ! NT 4 blows up if this is missing > #endif > > I expect that your MBR boots NT4 and as I believe that the problem is the > laptop can not use a boot loader that works with NT4 I think it's likely > that your code will not work with it. However I don't know for sure as I > can not spare the time required to read the code at the moment. > I have no windows at all on my notebook, but there was a minimal sort of dos on it when I bought it. I think that the dos mbr remained on the hdd until my problems started and I played around with lilo and mbr. > > Another option that probably hasn't been considered. Boot up dos and run > "fdisk /mbr" to put the DOS MBR on it. I'm certain that no-one has > released a PC which is unable to boot DOS... If LILO is then installed to > /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda2 is marked as active in the partition table then DOS > should load up LILO and things should be fine. OK, good idead I will try to organize a dos bootable disk with fdisk and try it that way! Bye, Olaf
