In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hi, i have a problem booting from my hard drive after installation. > > I've installed the stable release on a clean hard drive, no problems > with installation. If i boot from a floppy or a cd, the filesystem is > intact on the hard drive partitions. The hard drive is a large one, > but the BIOS autodetects the size and geometry fine. > > I have no problem with reinstalling and trying again; i've already > reinstalled four or five times, tried different partitioning schemes. > Basically, here's what i've determined so far: > > If i boot with no floppy or cd, i get a no system disk error message. > The O'Reilly Running Linux book mentions this message, and suggests a > failed or incorrect lilo installation, or no partition marked as > bootable. I've tried messing around with the lilo.conf, changing > settings in there, but i still get the same message. I've also tried > a bunch of other boot loaders (the 'install-mbr' util from the debian > cd, SBM from btmgr.sourceforge.net, and GRUB), and i get no results > with those as well. Finally, if i try to boot from a floppy, but load > the kernel on my hard drive from the boot loader, it either can't find > the kernel image or can't read the hard drive. > > And yes, even though the bios seems to have no problem with my hard > drive, i have a small hda1 partition for the /boot directory, which is > marked bootable in cfdisk. > > -- > \ / Mike Miller \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When you say that you messed around with lilo.conf changing settings, did you also try doing /sbin/lilo after changing the settings? Did you see where the label for linux was installed when you ran it? I think it might help to see your /etc/lilo.conf and the partition table. I am more familiar with how that looks from fdisk and usually just do: fdisk -l /dev/hda >partition.table to make the file to paste into an email. Thanks, Anita
