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Topic: HDD not recognised (trying to partition), unable to format HDD - not recognised

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green

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Posted: May 25 2005,01:46

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/talk/node/135

4ebees

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Posted: May 25 2005,04:17

Hi, thanks for the reply, but I'm afraid that I was lost at:

"Thankfully, GRUB is very simple to do this with. for example, if your DSL hd-install is on hda1, here is what you need to enter.

title DSL
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1
makeactive
boot"

I enter this... where?

Do I boot from the disk - which I did - and then...?

I'm afraid I couldn't quite work out what the correct command was, or where to enter it, as none appeared to satisfy Grub - it merely informed me that it didn't understand that the commands (in the order they appear in the instructions).

Thanks for your follow-up.

skaos

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Posted: May 25 2005,10:28

You have only one hard disk in the box? If so, it is connected as master on the secondary ide channel. Usually the first HD is connected as primary master and this may confuse lilo (I'm no expert though). Is it possible to connect it as primary master and try from the beginning again?

4ebees

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Posted: May 25 2005,13:09

I've taken the HDD and CD-ROM out and changed the jumper settings. In my excitement (?) I accidentally deleted the damn BIOS from the HDD (I haven't played with this Compaq box for a while and forgot they have the BIOS on the HDD). So now I have to remember who to reinstall the damn thing again - so I can choose boot settings etc - can't believe I did it. It's been so long since I had to install the bugger, I've forgotten what I need and how to, so I'm going to have to start again. Serves me right for not paying close enough attention (I have to at least feed the children now and again