[aclug-L] Re: boot question

["Ryan & Jen" <rrupert@xxxxxxx>]

For any interested, this problem was due to the IDE WD hard
drive needing to be jumpered as the only drive on the controller.
The BIOS would see the drive jumpered as either Master or
Stand Alone.  When I changed the drive to Stand Alone, Linux
would load off of the hard disk every time.
One big fat self directed DUH!!



>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.
>
>rrupert@xxxxxxx