4.2-RELEASE will not boot after install ?

2000-12-06 Thread Nathan Boeger
Don't know if I should post here but I just installed 4.2-RELEASE onto a ppro 200 (had linux) the install went without a hich. Then when I rebooted, the box just stopped. It seemed like it could not read the mbr. So I booted again off the floppies and I used the loader to switched the

Re: 4.2-RELEASE will not boot after install ?

2000-12-06 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
I had the same problem on an old PPro box. The BIOS seemingly doesn't like the new (2 sector long) boot manager. If you fire up sysinstall again, and tell it to install the "standard bootblocks" (forgot the exact phrase), rather than the boot manager, you'll probably be OK. louie Don't know

Re: 4.2-RELEASE will not boot after install ?

2000-12-06 Thread nathan
"Louis A. Mamakos" wrote: I had the same problem on an old PPro box. The BIOS seemingly doesn't like the new (2 sector long) boot manager. If you fire up sysinstall again, and tell it to install the "standard bootblocks" (forgot the exact phrase), rather than the boot manager, you'll