Michael Haan wrote: > On 6/23/05, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>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 >>>>>-- >>>>>gentoo-user@gentoo.org 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 >>>-- >>>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >>> >>> > >>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. >> >> >> > > > Ok. How do I get a Gentoo boot floppy? >
Were you able to boot a different hard drive with same bios and disk controller? Here are instructions for creating a grub floppy: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Creating-a-GRUB-boot-floppy.html Maybe you can boot with that using these commands: rootnoverify (hd0) chainloader +1 Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
