[wellylug] Bootloader Problems?

[Jethro Carr]

On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 18:28, Phillip Rose wrote:
> What distro did you install? Did you make a boot floppy, and can you boot
> from that? I suggest making a boot floppy if you haven't, and trying to
> boot from that. If you can boot from the floppy, then it's probably a
> matter of setting the appropriate partition as bootable.
> 
I installed Jedo Linux 0.1, a custom distro, that I am currently
developing. It's compiled to work on a 386 up, and it's been tested on a
celeron, and a p2 with no problems. I'm probelly going to bring my pc to
the next lug, to show anyone who cares...

I haven't yet made a boot floppy, but I'm planning to.

> >I've setup grub as the bootloader. Could it be that? I was able to boot
> >a morphix cdrom okay, so maybe I should try lilo instaid...
> 
> Live CDs boot from your CDROM, not from a boot loader on your HD. GRUB or
> lilo... that shouldn't matter. I recently had a similar problem installing
> MEPIS, another Debian-based distro. (I like it a lot, BTW.) It had trouble
> knowing which partition was my boot partition, since I'd left several Linux
> partitions on the disk from a prior RH install, including a partition
> confusingly labelled "/boot". I thought MEPIS would wipe those partitions,
> but it didn't. Anyway, it would boot from the floppy but not the HD.
> 
Interesting - I just installed Mandrake 6.2, which uses lilo, and it
worked no problem.

Could it be a problem with my bios not liking grubs format, or
something?


> I set it straight by using cfdisk (fdisk would have been OK), and setting
> the "root" partition (the one that contains the real boot files) as
> bootable, using the "b" option.
did that.

thanks anyway,

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-- Jethro

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