Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3513 mails)

[Graham Smith <gqs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04-Mar-2001 Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, Graham Smith wrote:
> 
>> The only thing I can think of is that there may be a problem with the bios
>> in
>> the laptop which does not work with the later lilo. When it boots it looks
>> at
>> the harddrive then asks for a boot diskette be inserted.
> 
> Does this mean, the BIOS does not find your harddisk for booting ?

Yes

> Do you have one active partition ? This sounds like there is no
> active partition, makr /boot as active.
My partions are as follows

/dev/hda1 ---> MSDOS
/dev/hda2 ---> linux swap
/dev/hda3 ---> /boot
/dev/hda4 ---> /

I have tried making either /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4 active. The bios does not
see the hard disk having a valid boot sector.
 
> 
>   Thorsten

Any other suggestions to try?

Regards,

Graham Smith
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