Hi, Do you have DOS MBR on the /dev/hda itself?
Jack Coates wrote: > On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 07:08, Zachariah Mully wrote: > >>Hello all- >> I am having a rather baffling problem with installing WISP/Bearing on >>to a 1.0G IDE harddrive. The funny thing is, I can get the drive to work >>if I partition it and format it in Windows, but I can't get it to work >>if I do the same in linux. >> Here's what I am doing in linux: >>1)fdisk /dev/hda >>2)add 50MB FAT16 (type 6) partition as /dev/hda1 >>3)toggle bootable flag to true on /dev/hda1 >>4)use mkdosfs to create a FAT16 file system on the /dev/hda1 >>5)syslinux /dev/hda1 (using v1.52, also tried the -s option to no avail) >>6)mount partition to /wisp (mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /wisp) >>7)unzip wisp-dist_2290_pkg_wdist.zip to /wisp >>8)edit /wisp/syslinux.cfg >>9)install disk in router box and boot it, but it never finds the MBR >>that syslinux should have installed (right?)... It just sits there >>saying "Invalid media or replace system disk" (or whatever that error >>says). >> >>The destination box is a Dell XPS P200s with 32MB, and I've installed >>full distros on this box (and drive) before without any issues. I know >>that I must be missing something totally obvious, but I can't figure it >>out. At this point it's purely academic, as I can get it to work when >>installed under windows, but being that I don't run windows any more >>(had to take over a coworkers box to do it) it's a matter of pride that >>I can get it to work under Linux ;) >> >>Thanks, >>Zack >> > > > Hmm. > > Only thing I can think of is to run syslinux _after_ unzipping the wisp > package into the partition. Well, I suppose esoteric stuff like LBA > could also screw it up, but you did put the fat12 partition into the > first 1024 blocks, right? -- Best Regards, Vladimir Systems Engineer (RHCE) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
