Re: Sys will boot from floppy but not from HD
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 06:01:28PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: I have an old problem that I now wish to fix since I have just upgraded my file server. I can boot the server from a floppy but when I try to boot directly from the Hard Drive all I get is 01 01 01 01 ... [snip] What should I try next? Dump that PITA lilo and install a more intelligent bootloader. You could first try to reinitialize the mbr with somehting like: install-mbr -r -k -p 1 /dev/hda -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sys will boot from floppy but not from HD
The configuration should be boot = /dev/hda root = /dev/hda1 Bios boots from /dev/hda not from /dev/hda1 Lance Hoffmeyer escribió: Hey all, I have an old problem that I now wish to fix since I have just upgraded my file server. I can boot the server from a floppy but when I try to boot directly from the Hard Drive all I get is 01 01 01 01 ... I have booted from the floppy and rerun lilo -v OUTPUT: Reading boot sector from /dev/hda1 Merging with /boot/boot-menu-b ... I have checked and /dev/hda1 is bootable in lilo.conf boot = /dev/hda1 root = /dev/hda1 What should I try next? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sys will boot from floppy but not from HD
On Monday 19 February 2007 00:01, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hey all, I have an old problem that I now wish to fix since I have just upgraded my file server. I can boot the server from a floppy but when I try to boot directly from the Hard Drive all I get is 01 01 01 01 ... I have booted from the floppy and rerun lilo -v OUTPUT: Reading boot sector from /dev/hda1 Merging with /boot/boot-menu-b ... I have checked and /dev/hda1 is bootable in lilo.conf boot = /dev/hda1 root = /dev/hda1 Just checked my lilo.conf on another machine (not my 64-bit one, which is using grub) and this has: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda3 (I've a small /boot partition and a swap partition in hda1 and hda2 respectively, so hda3 is the root partition). I think you normally want lilo to install in the MBR, which would be /dev/hda and not hda1. You only install lilo into an actual partition if you are using it as a secondary bootstrap loader which gets called up by some other bootstrap loader (such as Windows' NTLDR). If you're single-booting Debian then you definitely want lilo installed in the MBR. It's easy to fix; just boot from some other media, mount your usual drives under some convenient mountpoint, chroot to there, run lilo and remember to EXIT FROM THE CHROOT WITH CTRL+D before you reboot. (If you don't exit the chroot, the changes you made could get lost.) -- AJS delta echo bravo six four at earthshod dot co dot uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sys will boot from floppy but not from HD
A J Stiles wrote: On Monday 19 February 2007 00:01, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hey all, I have an old problem that I now wish to fix since I have just upgraded my file server. I can boot the server from a floppy but when I try to boot directly from the Hard Drive all I get is 01 01 01 01 ... I have booted from the floppy and rerun lilo -v OUTPUT: Reading boot sector from /dev/hda1 Merging with /boot/boot-menu-b ... I have checked and /dev/hda1 is bootable in lilo.conf boot = /dev/hda1 root = /dev/hda1 Just checked my lilo.conf on another machine (not my 64-bit one, which is using grub) and this has: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda3 (I've a small /boot partition and a swap partition in hda1 and hda2 respectively, so hda3 is the root partition). I think you normally want lilo to install in the MBR, which would be /dev/hda and not hda1. You only install lilo into an actual partition if you are using it as a secondary bootstrap loader which gets called up by some other bootstrap loader (such as Windows' NTLDR). If you're single-booting Debian then you definitely want lilo installed in the MBR. It's easy to fix; just boot from some other media, mount your usual drives under some convenient mountpoint, chroot to there, run lilo and remember to EXIT FROM THE CHROOT WITH CTRL+D before you reboot. (If you don't exit the chroot, the changes you made could get lost.) You also need to mount /dev and /proc in the chroot. Commands will look something like this: mkdir /mychroot/dev mkdir /mychroot/proc mount -o bind /dev /mychroot/dev mount proc -t proc /mychroot/proc Matt
Re: Sys will boot from floppy but not from HD
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:51:14AM +0100, nor wrote: The configuration should be boot = /dev/hda root = /dev/hda1 Bios boots from /dev/hda not from /dev/hda1 If there is an MBR program installed that boots active partition, then lilo can be on hda1. I always did that back when I used lilo many many years ago. Also safer for dual boots since installing windows would overwrite the MBR, but if you just had to change the active partition back to the linux partition it was simple to require from microsoft dual boot hostility. With the boot loader in the MBR you needed to boot some entirely other way to recover and reinstall the boot loader. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sys will boot from floppy but not from HD
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 06:01:28PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: I have an old problem that I now wish to fix since I have just upgraded my file server. I can boot the server from a floppy but when I try to boot directly from the Hard Drive all I get is 01 01 01 01 ... I have booted from the floppy and rerun lilo -v OUTPUT: Reading boot sector from /dev/hda1 Merging with /boot/boot-menu-b ... I have checked and /dev/hda1 is bootable in lilo.conf boot = /dev/hda1 root = /dev/hda1 What should I try next? You may have an old copy of lilo in the MBR. Try installing the package mbr and running install-mbr /dev/hda to replace the MBR with a generic 'boot the active partition' loader. Or you could move the boot loader to the MBR by changing boot= to /dev/hda. It is also possible you are having a disk geometry issue caused to an ancient bios (no idea what machine you are using or what size disk you have). Sometimes adding 'lba32' to lilo.conf can deal with disks over a certain size. Or you could use grub which is intelligent enough to figure that out on its own. Of course if the BIOS doesn't do LBA for booting, then you have to ensure the boot loader and the boot partition with the kernel is entirely within the first 1024 cylinders of the disk. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sys will boot from floppy but not from HD - SOLVED
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for all the replies. It was a config error boot = /dev/hda1 should have been boot=/dev/hda Now the system boots! Thanks again, Lance Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hey all, I have an old problem that I now wish to fix since I have just upgraded my file server. I can boot the server from a floppy but when I try to boot directly from the Hard Drive all I get is 01 01 01 01 ... I have booted from the floppy and rerun lilo -v OUTPUT: Reading boot sector from /dev/hda1 Merging with /boot/boot-menu-b ... I have checked and /dev/hda1 is bootable in lilo.conf boot = /dev/hda1 root = /dev/hda1 What should I try next? Lance -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF2cTaaqnEhL48XLARAh/oAJ4oWv0pYGu11XYx/AyJmYsn/gWXXgCfXU0S 6R6ZRR9TVEnv5XeBSaoTQV4= =na2s -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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