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Posted: May 27 2005,02:45 QUOTE
So... DSL works great when I boot off floppy/CD (non-cd-bootable bios) But I went through the instruction for hdinstall at http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/talk/node/64 and I can't boot off HD. It says DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER. BIOS order is A then C, no disk in A. Partitions:

|name| |bootable|    |type|       |FS|       |size (MB)|
hda2         *           primary    Linux            1983
hda1                      primary    Linux swap     128

Not sure if its related, but for some reason I need to enter boot:expert dsl vga=normal or it will give me an error "Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry. Dropping you to a (very limited) shell"
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Posted: May 27 2005,14:23 QUOTE
I am not sure if it makes a difference, but I dont make my partitions bootable when I install. I am new so if someone can provide more info or correct me, please do.
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Posted: May 27 2005,15:25 QUOTE
correct..
no need for the DOS boot flag..

It doesn't solve cookiedoh's issue, just wanted to clarify.

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Posted: May 27 2005,21:56 QUOTE
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I am not sure if it makes a difference, but I dont make my partitions bootable when I install. I am new so if someone can provide more info or correct me, please do.

cfdisk actually wont let me re-write to the MBR without a boot partition. Any other guesses out there?  :)
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Posted: June 01 2005,02:03 QUOTE
anybody have any ideas here?
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