I was able to install DragonFly on the disk all-right, but the machine still won't boot if the drive is powered-on at boot time.
I'll have to try the linux live-cd fdisk :-( 2009/4/17 Colin Adams <[email protected]>: > Now I'm back home, i've tried out everyone's suggestions. > > Bill's idea to remove the hard-disk from the boot-sequence made no > difference (I'm surprised - I thought that was just something obvious > that I had forgotten in my approaching senility). > > The suggestion to only plug the hard-disk in after booting from the CD > works - and in fact I didn't bother to boot a linux live-CD - I just > went ahead (after deleteting the ttysv1 entry) and let the DragonFly > DVD format the hard disk - it seems to be working so far (it is > currently installing files). > > 2009/4/15 Simon 'corecode' Schubert <[email protected]>: >> I bet this is the "set all bits to one on CHS overflow" thing in fdisk. I'd >> really like to know how we are supposed to handle this (better). >> >> Colin, sorry for trashing your computer. I think we are well aware of this >> issue, but we simply don't know exactly how to deal with it. Could you >> maybe use window's fdisk to create a large partition on the drive and then >> report back how the partition table looks like? In this case we could >> adjust our fdisk so that this won't happen again. >> >> thanks >> simon >> >> Colin Adams wrote: >>> >>> What appears to have happened is that in some way it has trashed my >>> disk-drive - I can still get the machine to boot from the live CD, but >>> only if I physically disconnect the hard-disk first. >>> >>> >>> 2009/4/8 Hasso Tepper <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>> Colin Adams wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Well, if that is the case the ISO should not be available for download >>>>> - there should be a fixed version. >>>> >>>> Well. It shouldn't be any way fatal, but in general I agree - we should >>>> release 2.2.1 ASAP, really. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Hasso Tepper >>>> >> >> >
