Problems with jury-rigged install (boot loader?)

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Problems with jury-rigged install (boot loader?)
started by: wilkeson

Posted by wilkeson on Jan. 23 2007,15:30

I'm trying to install DSL on a Toshiba Libretto 110CT, but I believe I'm having problems with the boot loader.

Since I don't have access to a PCMCIA cd-rom and this computer doesn't have USB ports I found an old parallel iomega zip drive and copied the KNOPPIX folder from the cd to a zip disk. It boots just fine to the X desktop using a boot floppy and the boot options: dsl vga=808 dsl zipboot. I've partitioned the drive into two sections:
hda1: 128M Linux Swap
hda2: 3G Linux boot

However, when I do dsl-hdinstall, the files copy just fine (if I mount hda2 I can see them), but there are still some error messages. The first two come after "The copying of system files has been completed"

Setting up /root/
Setting up /home/dsl/
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
mount: relocation error: mount: undefined symbol: blkid_known_fstype
cp: cannot stat `/mnt/auto/floppy/linux24': No such file or directory.

And then after I chose to install the boot loader the last line printed is:

No appropriate miniroot is available.

And when I go to boot off the hard-drive I get:
No operating system

I can reboot using the floppy/zip method and confirm that the files were copied, so it leads me to believe that something is going wrong with the boot loader installation.

So I was wondering if there's something here that I'm missing. And if not, is there a way to install and configure a boot loader on a mounted hard-drive?