I've installed Debian on a lot of systems, and this is the first time
it's ever done this.
I'm installing 2.2 from a DOS partition on a 200MHz ppro, with 64M ram.
It has a 3c595 Vortex 10/100 autoselect enet card, and an Adaptec
AHA-294x Ultra SCSI card.
The SCSI card has one disk (/dev/sda), which is a Seagate ST32430N 2G,
and one CDROM. There is also a floppy.
That's it: no IDE disks, etc.
The partition table for this system looks like this (from fdisk):
/dev/sda1 1 26 208813+ 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 * 27 261 1887637+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 27 46 160618+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 47 142 771088+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 143 155 104391 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda8 156 261 851413+ 83 Linux
Don't ask me why there's only one primary partition and everything else
is in the extended partition; it was configured like this before I got
it. It had RedHat 6.1 on there and booted fine. The previous install
booted into Linux (/dev/sda5 is the root partition), with an optional
boot into DOS (/dev/sda1).
When I installed Debian I had it overwrite the data in all the Linux
partitions.
When it asked me about installing the MBR, I took all the defaults.
After it installed (or tried to install) an MBR for /dev/sda, it gave me
a screen about how the boot partition was on an extended partition, so
it needed to install into /dev/sda2, and I again took the default (OK).
Now when I boot the system it prints "MBR", then does a hard hang. I
can't even C-A-D or use the reset button, I have to power off/on.
If I hold the SHIFT key down, it prints "MBR 2AF", then does the same
hard hang.
I can boot off of my boot floppy and it comes up OK, though.
What should I do? I'd hate to have to reinstall, and it used to boot OK
so it must be possible with the above partition setup.
/etc/lilo.conf says:
lba32
boot=/dev/sda2
root=/dev/sda5
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
delay=20
vga=normal
default=Linux
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
image=/vmlinuz.old
label=LinuxOLD
read-only
optional
Help!
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