hd syslinux dsl install problemForum: HD Install Topic: hd syslinux dsl install problem started by: Gadabout Posted by Gadabout on May 05 2006,15:10
New for sure. I have a old 166 with 32 meg of ram that I can run dsl live cd on but tried to do hd install and got all the way through untill it said " ready to reboot" or something like that. The cd door opens and then everything just stops. I should also say that I can only run syslinux type cd as nothing else boots. Any help would be great and if you need more info let me know. Thanks
Posted by piccolo on May 06 2006,11:01
Then the reboot what happens? Any error message?Which were their installation steps exactly? Posted by Gadabout on May 08 2006,14:28
I'm sorry. I have to power it down manually and try to boot but get a "no operating system please insert disk to boot" type error. I know I have changed the boot sector so Win95 will no longer boot and that is ok. I was thinking that I need to partition the whole drive and tried gparted over the weekend but it wouldn't boot up on that machine. Any ideas would be nice. Thanks
Posted by piccolo on May 08 2006,21:00
The old computers can't boot from CDROM drive. They can boot only from hard disk and floppy drive but fortunately there are a solution: Create a DSL boot floppy. Here how: to:< Boot Floppies > Then reboot your computer with the floppy disk and DSL LiveCD into the respective drives. The boot floppy will redirect boot process towards the DSL LiveCD. Posted by Gadabout on May 09 2006,12:55
I am booting from live cd with syslinux dsl. It's the hard drive that is screwed up from the hd install from the dsl disk. I think I need help with commands that will reformat the hd but it must be done from the dsl disk as nothing else boots up. I tried to use cfdisk and fdisk but get errors that blow me out of the shell, something like "fatal error press enter to return to something" I have seen other people in this forum with this same error. I tried their fix to no avail. Thanks for any help.
Posted by Gadabout on May 09 2006,13:20
Update. I saw a frugal install shortcut that looks like it's what I need so I will try it tonight.
Posted by piccolo on May 09 2006,21:42
Try to boot DSL with the boot option "dsl 2" when you use cfdisk and fdisk. This will boot DSL in mode text only.Here useful documentation: < Frugal Howto > Good Night Posted by Gadabout on May 11 2006,11:13
Success!!! Nothing worked right but a little of everyones help did the trick. I went in text mode(dsl 2 at the prompt) and tried "fdisk hda". This didn't work so I tried cfdisk and went right into a screen that saw my hd and I made it bootable. This didn't work from a shell in the DSL GUI live cd but worked in text mode. I then rebooted into the live cd and did hard install again. This time at the "proceed to reboot" prompt the machine did what it did before, froze with no more action. I manualy turned it off, rebooted from the hd and every worked as it should. Special thanks to Piccolo for sticking it out with me, your last post would have done the trick I think for sure but I had gotton the same info elsewhere. Thanks again everyone. Craig
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