Problem with hdinstall

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Problem with hdinstall
started by: CookieDoh

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Posted by CookieDoh on May 27 2005,02:45

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 by adssse on May 27 2005,14:23

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 by ke4nt1 on May 27 2005,15:25

correct..
no need for the DOS boot flag..

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

73
ke4nt

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Posted by CookieDoh on May 27 2005,21:56

Quote (adssse @ May 27 2005,10:23)

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 by CookieDoh on June 01 2005,02:03

anybody have any ideas here?

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