Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
>
> On Thursday 15 November 2001 04:16 pm, Erik Steffl wrote:
> > Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
> > > I have just upgraded my box ( unstable about 3-4 months berhind on the
> > > updates ). The upgrade was from PII 233 BX chipset motherboard to Athlon
> > > 1800+ XP VIA KT266A motherboard. The problem seems to be the following:
> > >
> > > 1. I cannot boot off the hard drive. It will see all the partitions and
> > > system will work fine once booted from floppy/CDROM. It will install and
> > > reinstall LILO without any problems. But every time I try to boot off of
> > > HD I get there is not boot device insert bootable disk and press enter or
> > > something. If anyone has any suggestions I would truly appreciate.
> >
> > first the obvious: check bios settings,
>
> What am I looking for? The major difference is that BX didn't support
> advanced ATA modes so my HD used to be ATA33 and now it is ATA66.
that should not matter. the point is that the LILO doesn't even start
- the bios thinks that you have no bootable disk which can have
following causes:
- booting from HD is disabled, no bootable floppy is found, bios
complains
- there is nothing to boot on disk C - that means that your lilo is
either not installed (I guess you already checked that) or is installed
in some place where bios cannot find it. It has to be on disk C (looks
like you're using IDE disk). try to check your lilo configuration (read
man lilo.conf).
if it still does not work post your /etc/lilo.conf
> > now just slightly less obvious: make sure lilo is installed on mbr
> > (at least I think that's where it needs to be, check the docs for lilo)
>
> It is installed in MBR. I have tried to clean it out with DOS fdisk /mbr and
> reinstall and it still doesn't work. I use 'lba32' flag and stuff.
most of the flags do not matter - the important thing is that it's not
lilo failing, it's bios failing to find anything bootable - so the only
config options that matter are the ones that determine where is lilo
installed.
> > > 2. What driver should I use for the sound card?
> >
> > what soundcard do you have? Is it the onboard one? ac97 or something
> > like that is often found on via motherboards, there's a driver for that
> > chipset for linux (at least alsa), but the sound quality is quite poor
> > (at least that's my observation and also confirmed by other people on
> > this list)
>
> Yes, I was talking about the internal one.
you can probably use bios to make it look as what it is, as
soundblaster or disable it. Make sure that you enable it and then use
lspci to figure out what it is. then check kernel sound modules or alsa
to see whether the chip is supported. or post output of lspci to this
list.
erik
