[SLE] Help - 6.3 - Can't boot off of anything!
I installed Suse Linux 6.3 on one of my PC's several days ago. There was a warning sheet included with the distribution about problems installing LILO to the /boot partition. As suggested, I installed LILO to the MBR. Well - At present, I can't boot off of anything - Not even my (formerly) bootable cdrom, not from the bootable floppy. When I power cycle the machine, I hear a couple of seconds of action on the cdrom, and then nothing. The monitor remains black. I checked all connections - nothing seems loose. I don't remember if I rebooted the machine after my inital install. Perhaps the first time I shut the machine off was when I installed a network card a couple of days ago. It was at this time that I saw that I could not reboot the machine. I tried the network card in every PCI slot and still no boot was possible from the system, cdrom or floppy. Finally I removed the network card - Still no boot from disk, cdrom or floppy. Does anybody have any suggestions for me? Thanks, Celia McInnis -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Celia McInnis wrote:
I installed Suse Linux 6.3 on one of my PC's several days ago. There was a warning sheet included with the distribution about problems installing LILO to the /boot partition. As suggested, I installed LILO to the MBR.
Well - At present, I can't boot off of anything - Not even my (formerly) bootable cdrom, not from the bootable floppy.
When I power cycle the machine, I hear a couple of seconds of action on the cdrom, and then nothing. The monitor remains black.
I checked all connections - nothing seems loose.
I don't remember if I rebooted the machine after my inital install. Perhaps the first time I shut the machine off was when I installed a network card a couple of days ago. It was at this time that I saw that I could not reboot the machine. I tried the network card in every PCI slot and still no boot was possible from the system, cdrom or floppy. Finally I removed the network card - Still no boot from disk, cdrom or floppy.
Does anybody have any suggestions for me?
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