Howard Lowndes wrote:
> I just tried a Deadrat 7.0 server install into a VMware virtual machine
> and all went well, except when it starts it gets as far as "L", not even
> "LI" which I know how to handle.
I've seen this before, usually when attempting to install on old 386
machines. It means that the first stage boot loader has been loaded into
memory, but can't work out how to load the second stage boot loader.
This is usually a problem with your disk parameters, ie the first stage
boot loader expects to find the second stage boot loader in a certain
location on the disk, but is looking in the wrong place because the
parameters are wrong. Usual solution is to go into BIOS setup and fix
your disk parameters there. I believe that VMware gives you a virtual
machine complete with BIOS, so you might want to have a look at the
settings in there. I'm not sure if that's where your solution is, but
your problem is certainly that the first stage boot loader can't load
the second stage.
> Too late and too many glasses of Red.
Hope that was a decent red (I won't give my definition of a 'decent red'
here - that would be worse than distro religious wars: what would you
choose the Red Hat Plain Dry Red, the Debian port (apt-get cigars), the
SuSE Germanic wine with inexplicable sugar, the Mandrake we're French we
make the best wine in the world, or the more exotic Yellow "We all know
where *they* get their wine" Dog :-)
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