[aclug-L] Re: boot question

[John Phillips <jphillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Check your Bios Setup to be sure the hard drive you are wanting
to boot from is in the boot sequence ( A,C ).  After you are
running Linux from your hard drive, run fdisk to make sure the
hard drive's bootable partition flag is set, exit fdisk and
run Lilo as root.
John Phillips


On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Ryan & Jen wrote:

> Debian 2.1 system that will initially fail to boot off of IDE hard disk
> (hda1) after a cold boot.  The POST process seems to not  be giving the PC
> access to the MBR or something weird like that.
> I.e. I never see LILO anything   eg. LI:
> I have had boot problems in the past on a Linux box and would atleast see
> LI: or something else like FG:
> If I boot off of the Debian Custom Boot system disk from fd0 and get to
> tty0, perform a warm boot, shutdown -r now, the system will then boot off of
> hard disk no problem.  If the warm boots continue, the system will boot off
> of hard disk.  If the PC is powered down (cold boot again), the
> aforementioned cycle begins.
> Is this a PC issue or can a Linux OS fix be investigated, previous hard disk
> on the same system had never shown this behavior.
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