Eric d'Alibut wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Eric d'Alibut<eric.hali...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Might want to try the boot floppy, and if you have an issue using a
>>> boot floppy, try cdemu45.iso (it emulate a boot floppy, so has the
>>> boot floppy's /boot).
>
>> Ok, I'll give that a whirl.
>
> No joy. Same behavior.
>
> I went into the BIOS of the machine and turned off the first IDE
> drive, which made the SCSI 'hd0'. No joy. I'm starting to think that
> old IBM 4.5 g may not be *quite* as healthy as I thought it was,
> although apart from this booting issue it seems to be acting fine.
>
> Did I mention that if I set the machine BIOS to boot from the SCSI,
> that I get a "No O/S found" message?
That's a clue.
That is indicating something is not right.
Problem is, I can't remember what. :)
I *think* that means there's no partition flagged as active, but
it could also mean there's no MBR on the disk.
Try re-doing the install with the IDE disk not installed, see if it
works better. MBR problems shouldn't cause the inability to boot
using a bootloader pulled from floppy (or CD), but the fact the
system can't boot on its own indicates there's something wrong
with the installed system, and if that's the case, the floppy boot
trick may not work as well.
(you MAY be right, there may be something wrong with the HD, but
usually you get SOME kind of error message. Though sometimes you
don't... ('scuse me while I have an unpleasant flashback...)
Nick.
