On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 11:19:39AM -0500, Matt Hyclak enlightened us: > This problem was mentioned a while ago, and I just wanted to follow up with > some details, hopefully to the point of a solution. > > Situation: Install starts, copies all files and on the first boot into > Windows, the following error appears: > > NTLDR is missing > Press any key to restart > > > This only seems to be happening on Intel Motherboards, specifically the > 865GLC and the 915GAG. In VMware, the same setup/linux boot cd works > perfectly, as it did on an older Dell machine I just re-imaged. > > When booting the Linux boot cd, I get the following error on the problem > boards: > > Loading bzImage...............Not enough memory to load specified kernel. > > It drops me to a boot: prompt at this point, and typing "unattended" > re-launches ISOLINUX and it successfully loads the kernel and starts the > install process to the point of NTLDR missing. > > > Does anyone have anything to offer that might solve this issue? I'll play > around with the BIOS settings for the hard drive configuration. In one > machine I have a PATA drive, so I'll try putting the bios in "legacy" mode > to disable the SATA ports, but the other machines have SATA drives in them. >
Just a follow up with some more information: Changing from "Enhanced" (PATA and SATA both enabled) to "Legacy" (Only PATA enabled) in the BIOS did no good. Neither did the newest BIOS from Intel. The 4.6 Linux boot disk seems to work fine. It's the 4.7pre from CVS that does not. My guess is that the updated parted/format is not correctly setting up the MBR in the latest CVS snapshot? Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
