It looks like Dell messed up with the BIOS, they allways do modifications for their own purpose, I had problems like that in a Compaq too... As someone said before, try running Gentoo from a boot floppy (if your BIOS refuses to boot from floppy, get a hammer and throw your computer of a bridge), this way you'll know if its a BIOS issue.
On 6/23/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Haan wrote: > > On 6/23/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Michael Haan wrote: > >> > >>>I don't know what is going on here. I've installed x86 2005.0 on a > >>>Dell Optiplex. I've installed a new harddrive (b/c I took the factory > >>>one for another gentoo box), run through the x86 install, built a > >>>kernel and installed grub. The box refuses to boot from the hard > >>>drive. In fact, in the BIOS setup, it refuses to let me specify the > >>>hard drive as a boot option. Anyone have any idea why? > >>> > >> > >>That's odd. Have you tried to chain load it from a grub floppy or cd? > >> > >>rootnoverify (hd0) > >>chainloader +1 > >> > >>What kind of hard drive and disk controller are they? > >> > >>Zac > >>-- > >>[email protected] mailing list > >> > >> > > > > > > I'm not even sure what that means! The fact of the matter is, the PC > > refuses to even try to boot from the HD (FYI - it has booted linux in > > the past from the HD). > > > > So, the bios detects the hard drive but it won't let you specify it as the > boot device? What version of bios is that? > > Zac > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -- [email protected] mailing list
