[SuSE Linux] boot fail
After replacing my hard drive i could not reload Suse 5.3. When I started up with the floppy in fdd I got a message after the boot: prompt of "boot failure" Any suggestions would be appreciated Denis Miller - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
millerd wrote:
After replacing my hard drive i could not reload Suse 5.3. When I started up with the floppy in fdd I got a message after the boot: prompt of "boot failure"
Any suggestions would be appreciated
"Boot failure of what?" The floppy or the hardrive? Did you move your old hardrive to another ide controller. Are you trying to reinstall, or boot your old system? The boot floppy could have gone bad, but it is more likely that you either: 1. Misset the master-slave jumper 2. Didn't set the new harddrive settings in bios setup. The proper size must be set, and usually LBA. 3. Need to do an fdisk/mbr with a dos boot floppy. 4. Maybe you need to format the drive first, I remember some of those older 5.3 sets had an install bug. Post more detailed info. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
millerd wrote:
After replacing my hard drive i could not reload Suse 5.3. When I started up with the floppy in fdd I got a message after the boot: prompt of "boot failure"
Any suggestions would be appreciated
Denis Miller
When a boot floppy is made the process doesn't check to see if there were bad blocks which may make the boot disk worthless. You have two choices, that I'm aware of: 1. Create a Linux boot disk under DOS 2. Credate a Linux boot disk under Linux Number 2 seems out of the question. Format two or three floppies using DOS. Scandisk or chkdsk /f to verify no bad blocks. On your SuSE CD is a directory that has the disk images you need to boot. Also, there is a program called RAWRITE2.EXE. Use it to create a new boot floppy (or two) according to instructions on the CD. RAWRITE2.EXE doesn't check for bad blocks, so you have to. The Linux Documentation Project, at the SunSite of unc.edu, has howto's which cover this subject. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
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