Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 18:39:21 -0500 Message-Id: <200012151839.AA247660798@pressroom.com> From: "Oleg Godeanu" <godeanu@pressroom.com> Subject: Re:[SLE] Booting with Floppy ~ including the SuSE Original Distro Boot Disk So tell me more ... BIOS manufacturer, motherboard, how many possible boot devices, is LILO installed on Master Boot Record of /dev/hda1, which is the order you installed the 3 distributions (well, I guess SuSE 6.2 was before SuSE 7.0 :) - but what version is Mandrake and where does it fall within the before-mentioned sequence ? Oleg ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: tabanna <tabanna@aig.forthnet.gr> Reply-To: tabanna@aig.forthnet.gr Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 21:45:56 +0000
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Oleg Godeanu wrote:
Did you tried the physical integrity of the disk - let's say using DiskDupe or something of the kind ? Did you tried booting from the recovery disk as well ?
Oleg ~ thanks a ton :)
Something VEry odd, is happening here ~ It seems that LILO is over-riding the BIOS instruction to boot from Drive A: { fd0 } ................
I have 3 Linux systems on my Hard Disk :
SuSE 6.2 SuSE 7.0 Mandrake
ALL three are set up to share the same boot Partition /dev/hda1 which is ext2 file system { there is NO DOS partition on my Hard Disk }
With the ONE exception of "Toms Killer Boot Disk", NO Linux bootable floppy will boot from /dev/fd0 !
It appears that the /boot partition /dev/hda1 has taken control of my system !
Any ideas { I do not believe the floppies to be corrupted }
thanks
best wishes
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
This happened, suddenly.
My SuSE official distro Boot Disk used to work flawlessly.
Suddenly, it will not boot %#$@
any ideas ? . . . I have tried re-setting BIOS defaults, but still have this problem :(
thanks
Hi, SuSErs :)
~ Am having a problem, booting from /dev/fd0
After my BIOS message reports: 'Verifying DMI Pool Data . . . . ' "Boot failed" appears, and the system hangs :(
..........................
My floppy drive is able to Boot DOS Disks OK , but I get "Boot failed" , from ALL my Linux Boot Disks
with, ONE exception : 'Tom's Killer Boot Disk' DOES Boot OK .. . . Good 'ole Tom ! ................................
Any ideas, please, what may be the mysterious cause .. . . did 3 of my Linux Boot Disks, ALL, get hit my a Cosmic Ray $#@% {{{ LILO works OK }
thanks
best wishes
Richard
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