Hi, i have a problem booting from my hard drive after installation. I've installed the stable release on a clean hard drive, no problems with installation. If i boot from a floppy or a cd, the filesystem is intact on the hard drive partitions. The hard drive is a large one, but the BIOS autodetects the size and geometry fine.
I have no problem with reinstalling and trying again; i've already reinstalled four or five times, tried different partitioning schemes. Basically, here's what i've determined so far: If i boot with no floppy or cd, i get a no system disk error message. The O'Reilly Running Linux book mentions this message, and suggests a failed or incorrect lilo installation, or no partition marked as bootable. I've tried messing around with the lilo.conf, changing settings in there, but i still get the same message. I've also tried a bunch of other boot loaders (the 'install-mbr' util from the debian cd, SBM from btmgr.sourceforge.net, and GRUB), and i get no results with those as well. Finally, if i try to boot from a floppy, but load the kernel on my hard drive from the boot loader, it either can't find the kernel image or can't read the hard drive. And yes, even though the bios seems to have no problem with my hard drive, i have a small hda1 partition for the /boot directory, which is marked bootable in cfdisk. -- \ / Mike Miller \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ GATech - CmpE \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/\/ CS1322 TA \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\/\