From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: No Boot Problem Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:53:19 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020725203925.022778d0@celine> References: <3D406BBB.E208E07B@gelm.net> <3D36DDA3.FA0F073C@gmx.net> <02072506225706.04469@unix.pa3gcu> <3D406BBB.E208E07B@gelm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200207252138.32376.sotl155360@earthlink.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Frank Roberts - SOTL , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org As you can see below, your message came to the list in soewhat garbled form -- with sentence fragments and bits that look like they are out of place. So please forgive me if I have misinterpreted what you (intended to) say. At 09:38 PM 7/25/02 -0400, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote: >partitionsucceededI hope you nice people can explain to me how to get out of >this situation. > >I have a dual boot box - MS Windows 98 on hda and Linux RH6.3 on hdb. > >Having problems with the Windows side (nothing new here) I decided to remove >both hda and hdb and install a third hard drive (hd3) and the use the >original restore disk to install windows on hd3. > >First I had problems getting the restore disk to be acknowledged but on about >the 4th boot attempt I . > >The first screen up said that the disk drive was unreadable and that i would >have to use FDisk to remove all partions. This I did and then rebooted the >box. > >The box then refused to boot. If I understand you correctly, up to this point, all your problems are with Windows, not with Linux. >I then restored the box to its original configuration by reinstalling hda and >hdb and removing hd3. The systen still refused to boot. At this point, a description of the failure mode would belp more than "refused to boot". Did LILO even begin to run? Did it display any messages on teh screen? >I stuck Tomsrtd in and boot the box into Toms followed by a normal shut down. > >I then stuck RH 7.3 install in and started an upgrade to see what would >happen. The box finally booted into RH after 5 or 6 tries. This sounds more and more like a hardware failure, perhaps a mobo problem. The system as you described it has now had problems with a Windows boot floppy, some hard disk bootloader (I surmise lilo), and syslinux (I believe RH boot floppies use syslinux). >I shut the upgrade down before the box upgrades keeping the original >configuration - hopefully. > >Next I attempted an install of RH to see what the table looked liked. Here I >received an error message that the partition table for hda the MS Windows >side was not readable. At that point I shut the box down keeping the original >configuration hopefully. > >I again tried to boot the box normally. No Go. > >Hopefully somebody has some ideas in how to boot this box. Boot it into what? You say it booted with Tomsrtbt. It's been awhile since I used that, but doesn't it include a kernel with ide support and tools like (Linux) fdisk? What do those tools tell you about the disks and their partitions? The difficulties you describe simply do not sound like Linux problems; instead, they sound like hardware problems of some sort. A more complete report of the details of the various failures (especially the LILO failure) , and a description of the underlying hardware, might elicit more helpful responses. -- -----------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA ray@comarre.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs