With the exception of oscarsamples/swraid1-scsi.disk, none of the oscarsamples/*.disk files use the "bootable" option to mark one of the generated partitions as bootable. This affects both 4.2 and the trunk.
With older BIOSes, this is not a problem. At the stage in the boot sequence where the BIOS is going to attempt to boot from a hard drive, it will read in the MBR, do some sanity checking, and transfer control to the MBR code. With GRUB and LILO, the MBR code does not rely on the presence of a "bootable" flag to decide which partition to boot from; it has other sources of information. Thus, as long as control is given to the MBR code, the boot will proceed even if no partition is flagged. However, with some recent BIOSes (for example, the one that comes with the Intel 945GNTLKR motherboard), the "sanity check" includes looking to see whether some partition has its "bootable" flag set. If there is no such partition, control is _not_ passed to the MBR code. Instead, the BIOS moves on to the next boot device in sequence, typically a network boot. The fix is simply to add the "bootable" option to the /boot line in each *.disk file (except swraid1-scsi.disk, which already has it); e.g.: --- ide.disk 2006-06-06 17:17:49.000000000 -0700 +++ ide-new.disk 2006-07-04 13:39:23.000000000 -0700 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -/dev/hda1 24 ext3 /boot defaults +/dev/hda1 24 ext3 /boot defaults bootable /dev/hda5 512 swap /dev/hda6 * ext3 / defaults nfs_oscar:/home - nfs /home rw -- Ted Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://psg.com/~ted/ "If you don't look, you don't know." Dr. Sam Ting, Nobel laureate experimental physicist. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
