Dennis,
I came across some-what similar problem few days back. After
installation when I rebooted
my machine I used to get endless string of "01010101010"...and no boot
prompt etc..
What I did was, I booted my machine with Linux boot floppy and at the
prompt press enter
or 'linux' followed by enter. this started the linux boot from hdd1. after
logging in as a root
I uninstalled LILO using some command like "lilo -u ....." . I am not
exactly sure how the command works.
after this I can boot into linux only using boot disk and without the boot
disk my machine boots the Win OS.
This is fine with me.
For this to work in your case when you go thru the installation do
create a bootloader on the boot disk.
-Amit
At 04:50 PM 8/30/2001 -0400, Dennis Myers wrote:
>On Thursday 30 August 2001 09:38, you wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Thanks for your recent reply. Looks like a great community here.
> >
> > I have been attempting a Mandrake installation on a Pentuim 200 MMX
> > system with 96MB memory. This system has two 6 gig hard drives and each
> > drive is partitioned 50/50. The system is setup purely for
> > practice/training purposes and therefore no problems with data loss. It
> > is also connected via ethernet to a laptop running win2k Pro.
> >
> > I am totally new to Linux or Mandrake or anything UNIX. This
> > installation was with the help of a visiting learned friend who is no
> > longer around.
> >
> > It has a 3 Com ISA NIC, PCI to SCSI card and an ISA Vibra Sound card.
> > The video is integrated S3 I think its a Trio but not a hundred percent
> > on this. I have a SCSI Toshiba CD ROM as a master to a a TEAC SCSI CD
> > Recorder.
> >
> > I had Win 2000 Pro and Win 2000 Server on one drive and Win 98 on the
> > master drive. This latter drive being left with the second partition
> > free. I decided to run the Mandrake 8 installation from Win98 and
> > install it on the same disk as the Win98 but on the free partion.
> >
> > The installation took the best part of two hours. It differentiated the
> > two hard drives hdb 0 and hdb 1. I selected to install a whole bunch of
> > components. I selected root password and user. But the installation went
> > belly up at the eleventh hour. It was selecting a display resolution of
> > 1024 x 768. This produced pyjama like stripes.
> >
> > I restarted with the Mandrake boot disk and went through the
> > installation, this time selecting 800 x 600. Still got the stripes.
> >
> > I then Took out the boot disk to try and boot normally into one of the
> > Windows operating systems.
> > Instead of the normal triple boot menu I get "
> >
> > "This
> >
> > > is not a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable floppy and press any
> > > key to try again"...
> >
> > When I boot into the Mandrake boot disk to try a second installation I
> > get the following.
> > The normal installation screen giving an option press enter to start or
> > F1 for more options.
> >
> > > If I select F1 for more options I get a screen saying "can't access a
> >
> > Linux
> >
> > > installation disk in your CDROM drive ( indicating the burner's name
> > > ).
> >
> > For some reason it likes the CD to be read from the burner rather the
> > read only drive.
> >
> > > options are "0 for YES" "1 for NO" and "2 for BACK". If I choose 1 it
> > > will read disk displaying a host of files. "Which driver should I try
> > > to gain SCSI access? There are 34 files. As an example there is
> > > NCR53C406A.0.
> >
> > All options, i.e. Whether I try to "enter" for "installation" or press
> > "F1" for "more options" would give me the same result. I.e. The 34 file
> > list.
> >
> > > Do you still think I can avoid rebuilding? How can I extract LILO and
> > > where should it be copied to if not the hard drive?
> >
> > I have also tried booting into seperately by disconnecting one hard
> > drive. But still get the same message discribed. "This is not a bootable
> > drive".
> >
> > I am considering a rebuild. Would like to know the cleanest way to go
> > about this. Would be best if I connected the hard drives one at a time
> > in order to install the operating systems seperately.
> >
> > Or should I keep them connected, wipe both. Install Windows 2000 Pro and
> > Server then use Win2K to boot into Mandrake 8.
> >
> > Alternatively should I wipe every thing and install Mandrake 8 from the
> > boot disk.
> > How do I make sure LILO installs correctly for multi boot menu?
> >
> > I thank you all in advance.
> >
> > Sincerely
> > Siavash Sefidvash
>
>I'm sending this to the list , maybe again, cause a good bit of the
>questions are beyond my current knowledge at this point. A little help
>here please for Siavash. TIA
>--
>Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
>
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