All right. Still not working. I am well into the learning as I go mode.
I've installed slink a couple times now. With different sized partitions, I've made the change Jens recommends below and still no change. When I reinstalled slink the script was still unhappy about my drive but I could use cfdisk manually in a shell. One new thing. I've been playing with lilo and did a lilo -P fix This changed the behavior. Now on boot up I get an L and then a never-ending loop printing 40. (Looks like one of the programs you wrote in middle school on the TSR-80.) Does this shed any light? I've now got DOS installed and get the same results at boot-up. Thanks for your help. Matthew Denson -----Original Message----- From: Jens B. Jorgensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 2:14 PM To: Matthew Denson Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Can not boot from HD after install In your lilo.conf change: boot=/dev/hda2 to: boot=/dev/hda That should work. Matthew Denson wrote: > OK here are the files. > > /etc/lilo.conf > -------------- > boot=/dev/hda2 > root=/dev/hda2 > install=/boot/boot.b > map=/boot/map > vga=normal > delay=20 > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-only > > Partition Table for /dev/hda > ---------------------------- > ---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of > # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors > -- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------- --------- > 1 0x00 0 1 781 0x82 31 63 788 1574496 16128 > 2 0x80 1 1 0 0x83 31 63 780 63 1574433 > 3 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0 > 4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0 > > Thanks. > Matthew Denson > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jens B. Jorgensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 10:34 AM > To: Matthew Denson > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Can not boot from HD after install > > What's the contents of your /etc/lilo.conf? Do you have boot=/dev/hda? Why > not also > send us a printout of the partition setup from (c)fdisk. Do you have the > bootable flag > set on /dev/hda2? > > Matthew Denson wrote: > > > I posted this to the newsgroup linux.debian.user yesterday. But now I'm > > subscribed to this list. I apologize if you've seen this before. > > ---- > > Good evening all, > > > > I have just completed the installation of Debian/Linux 2.1 on my old > Compaq > > laptop. When I finished it would not boot from the hard drive. The error I > > got was > > > > Non-System disk or disk error > > Replace and press any key when ready > > > > I insert the Boot Floppy and it boots fine (albeit real slow). Could > > someone give me a remedy to this? > > > > More detailed info: > > This computer has a retrofitted ~800 MB hard drive and in it's previous > > incarnation (up until last night) it was a DOS machine which had the > > On-Track Disk Manager software installed to translate the big disk for > DOS. > > > > The debian installation balked at the partition step, it said the disk was > > factory fresh or screwed up. I assumed it might be the Disk Manager > > partition voodoo, so... > > > > I did not have the disk for Disk Manager so I did not properly uninstall > it, > > but rather simply repartitioned the drive with DOS fdisk. > > > > Same message from the installation program so I shelled out and ran cfdisk > > directly. This worked great. I partitioned the drive the way I wanted with > > a ~768MB hda2 at the beginning of the drive and a ~8MB swap hda1 at the > end. > > > > The rest of the installation script went smoothly until the reboot when I > > discovered the above. > > > > I have a nagging suspicion that the hda2 needs to be reduced or that the > > boot record still has the Disk Manager strap in it. I'm going to set it > > aside in case I have to start over. > > > > Any guidance would be appreciated. > > > > TTFN, > > Matthew Denson > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > -- > Jens B. Jorgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
