Henry, At what point that the system hang. What is the last message displayed on the screen. The vmlinux you extracted to your FAT partition.
I think the reason why it boots straight into windoze is because you didnt install a bootloader (LILO or Grub) to the MBR when you installed it. If you have a linux floppy you could do this but you would have to manually add the windoze boot option in /etc/lilo.conf Joseph On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 14:05, henry wrote: > hullo > someone gave me this live debian cd ( morphix) that makes for a decent > desktop > of course I want to load in onto my hard drve > no problem there cause there is even a lil icon that says " install to hard > disk" > I create two had1 and hda3 partitions for ext3 and swap respectively > problem is after the "successful" install nothing happens > just boots straight back into the windoze > so i hit google for solutions and discover i could use loadlin to boot > after extracting vmlinux onto my FAT partition > I ran the batch file - loadlin vmlinux root=/dev/hda1 lang=en ro > things go ok for a while and then the system hangs > doesnt even get to the prompt > any suggestions ? > > Henry > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
